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...Princeton faculties have endeavored to suppress athletics at their respective colleges. What they did try to do was to endeavor to draw a line between gentlemen who play base-ball for sport and professionals who make the game a means of earning their livelihood. Their object was to prevent as far as possible the entrance of any of the many objectionable features of professionalism into college sports. Their purpose was a laudable one and they would have succeeded had it not been for the unfortunate action of the Yale faculty, in refusing, as they did, to have anything...
...little experience on the ball field, has covered first base remarkably well, making but one error in eight games. He is a heavy batter, but lacks experience in base running. Coolidge, who was disabled in the first Beacon game, is steadily improving. The injury done to his ankle will prevent him covering second base for some time, but it is hoped that he will be able to play centre field on May 26th. No comments need be made on his playing, as his past records prove him to be a reliable player, hard hitter and good base runner. Lovering...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: The time at which the special train leaves for Providence tomorrow will prevent the attendance of a large number of freshmen, as the Algebra examination does not end until one o'clock. In view of this fact, I respectfully suggest that the time of leaving be changed from...
...their opinion it would be unwise to build a fence round the new athletic grounds. The reasons for taking this step were numerous. In the first place it was felt by many members of the faculty that the building of the fence would be undemocratic, in that it would prevent a large number of men from witnessing the games on account of inability to pay the price of admission. To the minds of some the matter appears in its mercenary aspect, and it is feared that the erection of a fence for the purpose of increasing the gate receipts will...
...east end of the building and by a stairway removed as far as practicable from the rooms devoted to special investigations. This arrangement, and the placing of the engines and dynamos on the outside of the building, in a separate building to the eastward, will serve to prevent the jar of the machinery and the tramping of students from interfering with delicate observations. The basement of the central piece is occupied by receiving-rooms and storage for heavy pieces of apparatus. The western section is the one which the professors and instructors of physics have most carefully considered. The lower...