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For several years past a change has been gradually occurring in physical training at Harvard. As has been shown before, the old system developed simply a few champions, and the little action of the faculty was in the shape of arbitrary rules, passed to render sports subservient to study. Under...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ATHLETICS AT HARVARD. | 1/19/1883 | See Source »

The welfare of the masses being in such a satisfactory position of prosperity, the next attention of the faculty was to the various athletic and sporting associations, and to the carrying out of the third and fourth of the above propositions. In this regard their moving incentive seemed to be...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ATHLETICS AT HARVARD. | 1/19/1883 | See Source »

The present object of these rules is partial restriction, not arbitrary prohibition. The ultimate aim is the establishment of a fixed and definite position for college athletics, and to draw a marked line between it, professionalism, and even perhaps the ordinary amateur's position. The key-note to the situation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ATHLETICS AT HARVARD. | 1/19/1883 | See Source »

Lehigh University graduates in '83 the largest class in its history. The college furnishes every man upon graduation a good position, or is responsible for him until he gets one.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/19/1883 | See Source »

The statement that there are constantly a number of Yale graduates looking for a position on the New York Tribune, and the implied criticism of their work in such a position, would probably apply as well to graduates of other colleges and to other prominent papers, and is somewhat astonishing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/19/1883 | See Source »