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...entirely in accord with the effort made by the students of this University so to reform college sports that they shall hereafter be played under rules which will limit participation in them to bona fide members of the University, who have never had any pecuniary profit from their sport; and we heartily approve the new rules (subjoined), which have lately been unanimously adopted by the Harvard Football and Baseball Associations, and have been sent to us with the request that they receive our sanction. They provide that no one shall be allowed to represent Harvard University in any public athletic...
...cost" spirit, and does not give any good reason why we should not criticize the recent action. It seems also to distort our attitude somewhat. The second editorial urges Harvard's withdrawal from all athletic leagues as the best proof of her earnestness in reform...
...playing of substitutes against them indicates, Mere practice games-that is what they were. But their being in the association is worse than useless, it has been harmful. Their votes in Ames' favor lost you the Thanksgiving Day game, and now their votes will prevent this needed reform as to semi-professional graduate players and graduate students "for the foot ball season only...
...initiative must come from Yale. It lies with you whether this reform is put through...
...question dealt with under the head of Editorials is the all-absorbing athletic situation. The Monthly shows that Harvard was influenced in her action by the desire for a "reform in athletics for reform's own sake." The precipitate action is, however, "a cause for grave regret," and has given rise to the pertinent questions which are now being asked by the public press. The Monthly believes that the withdrawal was not dictated by mere pique, and that two months hence the same action would have been taken, but regrets that "when it was possible to take this wise step...