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...Baker has done most of the pitching for the nine, and does fairly well, he has good curves and very fair speed. He is very weak on "pop" flies, and also at the bat. It will take a great deal of hard work to get him in proper condition to face Yale. Cowling will play first base ; he plays his position fairly well, but is weak on "pick-ups" and ground balls. He tends to play in a lazy way, and needs more snap. He is a hard, though not sure, hitter and runs well...
...which is not yet settled, is whether college organizations should be allowed to play with professional organizations, and also whether they should be allowed to employ professional trainers. There can be but little doubt that no harm need necessarily follow from a contest with a professional team at the proper time and place. Professional teams are under rigid discipline ; and the opportunity for association with the members of a team during a contest, at the worst, is slight. Professional athletes are not ipso facto men of depraved natures. They are neither better nor worse than others with whom college students...
...employment of professional trainers, it is hard to see what problem other than the selection of a man of proper character and of suitable capacity is presented. There is an economy in the employment of instruction,-at least, this position is admitted when applied to mental training. Why should it not be, when applied to physical...
...self-government, and not a foolish old person requiring guardians and nurses. The time has gone by when a professor needed to be treated lid a school boy. It is true, that the professor, living a comparatively secluded life, is ignorant of many things-such, for instance, as the proper odds to lay on any given crew or ball club. Still, he is a thinking and responsible being, and should be treated as such...
...looked upon by the students as gentlemen and scholars, a higher tone will soon begin to prevail among them. Acts of disorder-such as the "marking down"of students who prefer not to make accurate recitations, or acts of impudent meddling, such as reprimanding students who have thought proper to get drunk-will become fewer and fewer. The professors will come to understand that the students require nothing of them except that they shall not interfere with the students, and so soon as they adopt those course the relations between the faculty and the undergraduates will become harmonious. Nothing...