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...RULE I. AMATEURS...
...RULE II. BONA FIDE STUDENTS.No one shall be allowed to represent Harvard University, in any public contest, either individually or as a member of team, unless he is, or intends to be throughout a college year, a bona fide member of the University, taking a full year's work...
...wall because this side has always been the coldest part of the gymnasium and also because the pipes could not have been put entirely around the room without interfering with the apparatus. The other parts of the gymnasium are heated by the old fashioned radiators, but these as a rule give heat enough, since it is not desired to keep the room very warm...
...writer is evidently absolutely ignorant of the rule that no man can begin a career on any athletic team till he has passed a physical examination by the proper authorities. In the article the writer says, "One would presume that before a young man was allowed to pursue the difficult and perilous occupation of a record breaker, the proper authorities would ascertain whether he was constituted for such trying and critical work." Then the writer gives an awful picture of "the best all-round athlete that ever graduated from the Heminway Gymnasium," who "fell dead on the Harvard campus from...
Admitting the evil, which seems perfectly obvious, how is it to be done away with? We have said that no rule can justly be passed. The remedy cannot be a sudden one, subverting the whole system at one blow. It seems to us that the cure lies rather in a slow but steady raising of the standard of college honor. Not many years ago there was little opposition to practical jokes in the class room or to the most open cheating in examinations. The jokes have gone and the petty cheater is now looked upon as mean and contemptible. These...