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SIRS-At one of the conventions of the Intercollegiate Football Association held in New York, Mr. Young delegate from Pennsylvania told Mr. Leeds delegate from Harvard, that he had seen a letter written by Captain Linn of the Harvard nine offering a certain man inducement to come to Harvard to play baseball. A few days later in its issue of November 16 under the heading "Harvard's Way of Doing it" the following article was published in the New York Herald. "Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 15. 1889.- Another instance of the prevalent and pernicious system of "ringing in" outsiders came...
...Linn writes me as follows: "In reply to your question concerning this article I wish to say that I have not made and no one has been authorized by me to make any offer whatsoever to Mr. Ammerman or to anybody else...
...there was a letter written, as the delegate to the Foot Ball convention said, what has become of it? To whom and by whom was it written? Mr. Ammerman does not mention a letter. The first article, (see above) said the offer was made by an influential member of the Harvard nine. The second article says it was a Harvard man, and Mr. Ammerman is not able to give his official connection with the Harvard association...
...first article Mr. Ammerman is offered his "tuition and board and a cash bonus besides;" in the second a scholarship and pecuniary compensation." On inquiry I learn that there are eight scholarships at the Harvard Law school. A condition attached to each and all of them is that the candidate must pass an examination at the end of his first year at the school. The scholarships were awarded in October of this year, a considerable time before Mr. Ammerman was "approached." The first article says the offer was made on November 14. The second says it was early in November...
...announcement that this evening's dinner will offer an opportunity for the free discussion of the present athletic situation is welcome news to all for while this privilege has been fully open before, there are yet several important phases of the question deserving attention which have come into prominence since the Yale-Princeton game, and which have not, therefore, received anything like careful attention. If is, of course, foreign to the purpose of the dinner that any definite move whatsoever should be made-that is at once undesirable and out of the question; but the hope is entertained that there...