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At a recent Yale alumni dinner President Porter said: "As far as Yale is concerned athletics are doing well; they do not divert the interest of the students nor do they diminish the zeal for culture as a whole. The tone of the students is improved by the slight diversion...
What the causes are for this thin showing of entries is a matter of conjecture. It certainly is not due to any lack of effort on the part of the officers of the association nor of the interest felt in the first meeting by the college. This latter is attested...
This afternoon occurs the first winter meeting and we wish the officers in charge a successful outcome for their labors in preparing for this spring awakening of athletics. They have made considerable preparation and they ought to be rewarded therefor. Nor does the college wish to be disappointed by witnessing...
The evils already commented on are general. There are other so-called evils which are special-some peculiar to one kind of athletics, but not belonging to the others. One of these, charged against base-ball, is that the game brings the students into contact with "professionals." Whatever may be...
But to some objectore the evil of "professionalism" in athletics includes more than playing with professional nines. The employment of professional "trainers" in preparing students for contests is, for some, the chief evil. Such trainers are looked upon as bad companions for our young men. It is quite natural that...