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DEAR SIR - In your correspondence and meetings you have maintained consistently that you were ready to meet us half half in our effort to reform. Prof. Ames, the chairman of your athletic committee, in the Harvard Graduates' Magazine of January, 1893, says: "It would be a great gain, too, for the true interests of intercollegiate athletics if by mutual agreement the teams should be made up exclusively from undergraduate players...
From yourself we hear that Harvard's objection to any attempt at reform for the present is that it will affect men now in college and now in training. We do not wish any effort that we are making for reform to become a stumbling block to the arrangement of a series of baseball games between Harvard and Yale, and while we intend to do our best to make the reform here we will make our arrangements with you for this season upon the following basis...
...share your desire to bring about a reform in intercollegiate athletics and differ only as to the method of attaining our common object. As I wrote you in my letter of Feb. 17th, we think the new rules should be uniform for all the sports; that they should be permanent, and not for a single year; and that they should not go into so immediate operation as to, debar students who are now at the university and eligible under existing conditions. We believe also that Harvard being a university, should be represented by university teams rather than by college teams...
...rules, which shall regulate hereafter the constitution of our athletic teams. It had been planned to publish these rules next Monday. But we are very glad, in response to your letter, to make them known at once, and accordingly enclose herewith a copy of our plan of reform...
With one or two exceptions we can heartily commend the fairness of Yale's proposition. It expresses apparently a sincere desire to arrange games in base ball this spring. It also for the first time intimates that Harvard's cooperation in Yale's efforts to reform collegiate athletics is sought for. Had Yale seen fit, at the very beginning, to take Harvard into her plans, we venture to say that the two universities could have succeeded in adopting measures for purification, which would have been satisfactory to all. However, Yale did not see fit to do this; Harvard is nevertheless...