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...seems to have been gradually failing. Last autumn we thought we would see if something could not be done to give the cricket interest a boom. Notices of various kinds were inserted in the college papers, the men were brought out to practice as regularly as the matter would permit, and challenges were sent to all the neighboring clubs. The fall season is necessarily short, as we do not get back until the first of October and cannot possibly play later than November 1st, and also, it invariably takes a week or more to get started. Still, last fall...
...tell me any reason why the base ball team should be allowed to compete with professionals, and still retain its standing, while if an amateur athlete enters with a professional his standing as such is forever lost? If we were entirely to ignore professional assistance, why should we permit the teaching of boxing or fencing by such? No: the truth is, we wish everything under our charge, that we may learn exactly what moral influences are being brought to bear upon the student...
...directors of the Columbia Boat Club are empowered to refuse to permit the crew to row unless sufficient funds are raised within a stated time...
...apology be expected of Harvard when she was conscious of no wrong doing? The spirit of this challenge was right and amiable, and for their good sense in accepting it the students are to be congratulated. Let these malcontents therefore regard this matter in an impartial light, and not permit themselves to quibble over an imaginary slight. - [Columbia Spectator...
They complain that Harvard students live too luxuriously, so much so that when a poor young man enters the university the contrast is more than ever painful to him. This is a matter which must be mostly governed by parents. If they permit their sons at college an undue allowance of money it is certain they will spend it as fast as it comes to hand, with no thought of the morrow, and probably with the fixing upon themselves of habits of extravagance which will be highly dangerous, should a change come to their fortunes after they have graduated...