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Today, when the question of who is a professional is of so much interest in connection with the clauses to that effect in the resolutions on athletics, it may be of as much value to learn what an amateur is according to the strict ruling. For by the ordinary custom it is acknowledged that a man who ceases to be an amateur becomes at once a professional. There is no halfway position. If the faculties should determine to hold strictly to this customary ruling our crew would find itself deprived of the services of their present efficient coach...
...entries; we want to know what the faculty are going to do about the resolutions on athletics; we want no recitations on legal holidays. This inactivity, this silence on the part of the faculty is oppressive. Let us see some signs of life. We are anxious to learn our fate...
...remarks at the Harvard Club dinner, at Delmonicos' last Thursday, Mr. C. M. Depew, president of the Yale Club, said: "In many things Yale is content to follow and learn of Harvard. This willingness extended even to New London;" and before the laughter had died away the speaker continued, "And last fall and the fall before and I don't know how many more falls, Yale also followed Harvard across the foot-ball field up town...
Only two journals of national influence, so far as have been able to learn, have devoted any of their space to any real editorial discussion of the new athletic regulations. Indeed, we may say that only one has in reality done so. The Advertiser has given them a superficial commendation, as also has the New York Times. Neither paper, however, has touched upon the real point of discussion involved in the matter. The Spirit of the Times also with a somewhat superfluous fervor shouts out its approval. "Their stated facts," it cries, "are indisputable; their arguments calm, clear, and concise...
...these meteorites was considered to be $10,000, and Professor Smith is to be counted as a contributor of $2,000. The balance of $500 needed to complete the purchase is to be paid from Professor Cook's appropriation for the current year. The Lee prize fund we learn, has been appropriated to pay the salary of "an instructor in reading." The treasurer has been authorized to cause the boathouse to be put in safe condition at the expense of the university account...