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During the recent convention of representatives from Harvard, Yale and other colleges to consider the subject of athletics, one of the speakers unbosomed himself thus: "Athletics have come to the pass where they are no longer fair and open trials of strength and skill, but on the contrary, as at present conducted, they train the young men to look upon victory as the rewards of treachery and deceit. That this is the case, anyone who has seen the game of baseball as it is played by the so-called best college nines will at once admit. For the pitcher, instead...
...recent number of the Spirit of the Times contrasts the present attitude of students and of college faculties in regard to the present reform in athletics, again emphasizing in accordance with President Eliot's views the irreconcilable antithesis between the new system and the old. In the belief that this article represents with substantial accuracy the position of the authorities of Harvard College in the matter, and as such deserves the widest circulation, we present it in full below. We still hold that the antithesis spoken of is unduly emphasized and need not necessarily exist, in spite of the Spirit...
...President Eliot, of Harvard College, in his recent annual report, makes some statements concerning athletic sports, which we publish on another page, and which should be read and remembered by every student. He is the first man who has plainly and publicly pointed out what keen observers have long known, viz., that students and professors look at athletics from totally different standpoints; that these two views are wholly irreconcilable; that between them is a chasm which affords no tenable middle ground; that the students are unwisely stubborn in support of their own ideas; and that this obstinacy will, sooner...
Henry S. Daniels, a student of the Institute of Technology, was drowned in the recent steamship disaster...
...recent conference on athletics we are glad to be able to say, is likely to result in furnishing many undergraduates whose minds were previously more or less in the dark in regard to the present attitude of the college authorities on the subject, with a more or less definite idea of the views held by some of the more influential members of the faculty, and presumably therefore by the faculty in general. We also hope that the knowledge by the faculty of the views of a large proportion of the students on the matter of professionalism as expressed...