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WILLIAM HOOPER.This letter was sent to Mr. Ammerman by registered post and was received by him on the 21st of November. The only reply which Mr. Ammerman has been fit to make is an open letter to the Philadelphia Press, which was copied by the New York Sun and appeared in its issue of November 27, 1889, under an article entitled "Will Harvard explain this...
PRINCETON, Nov. 26-There was considerable indignation and excitement here today when the copy of the letter addressed to the Philadelphia Press by a young athlete, who was approached by Harvard men and offered remuneration for his services if he would enter Harvard and play on the Harvard base ball nine and foot ball eleven, was received, and this charge makes Harvard's position ticklish in the extreme...
...Editor of the Press...
...Monthly shows that Harvard was influenced in her action by the desire for a "reform in athletics for reform's own sake." The precipitate action is, however, "a cause for grave regret," and has given rise to the pertinent questions which are now being asked by the public press. The Monthly believes that the withdrawal was not dictated by mere pique, and that two months hence the same action would have been taken, but regrets that "when it was possible to take this wise step with dignity and in a manner not to give offense, the college has chosen...
...McCall, Harvard '88, at one time a student in Cornell died at his home in Bath, Friday, November 22. For some time he was on the staff of the New York Press...