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...employed, if at all, university, and that this would tend to assimilate the "tone" of undergraduates with that of professionals, whose character is often low and whose motive is mainly mercenary. But why? Coaching by professionals cannot of itself make the motive of undergraduates mercenary, and nothing can prevent the motive of undergraduates being the desire to win, if possible. It seems, too, that it is a mistake to suppose that the employment of a professional coach by one college forces its rival to employ a professional. In rowing, the introduction of the "English" stroke was due to the discovery...
...supposition that the adoption of the new regulations will not prevent Harvard's entering at this meeting, it may be of interest to note that the games will probably be held at the Polo grounds instead of the Manhattan grounds, as at first announced. We may add that at the recent convention, all the delegates reported themselves as opposed to the athletic resolutions. In doubt as to whether the matter would be brought up, however, only a few had received positive instructions to vote against the resolutions. At Yale and the University of Pennsylvania, the faculties themselves are decidedly opposed...
...Columbia it is reported that it has been found necessary to appoint officers to remain on watch continually in the library, to prevent the students from mutilating and otherwise damaging the books...
...have been playing a rather rougher game of football than in the past. True; but it is a well-known fact that the students as a body were opposed to the roughness of the game, and there can be no doubt that student sentiment would have stepped in to prevent the repetition of such playing in another year. But the ill-advised action of the athletic committee last fall made it a matter of honor for the students to continue the game through the season. For my part, I can see no excesses to which the athletes of late years...
...attempt to bulldoze our college. It will not succeed, though the crew will make what concessions they can without injuring their prospects of winning. The race will be given up altogether rather than submit to outside dictation. It is very improbable that any obstacle will arise sufficient to prevent the race being rowed, especially as both crews are anxious to row. [Herald...