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...professionalism had made too great an entry into our college sports, particularly at Harvard, or not, and whether the present measures were called for or not. But, at any rate, students and faculty are so entirely at one in regard to the abstract question of professionalism that no very serious objection will be made on the part of the former to the possibly over-zealous measures of the latter in this matter...
Luther, '85, has returned to college, after a serious illness...
...charged by the Princetonian, and a very serious charge it is, that "one of the prominent nines of the college league played, during July, a number of games with a professional nine in a large neighboring city, and received a money compensation for their pains. This sum, large or small (it does not matter), was not to be expended for any college athletic organization, but, if we are rightly informed, went into the pockets of the individual players. This is the first time, as far as we are aware, that a college nine has been hired to play base ball...
...Serious irregularities and mismanagement have been disclosed in the Maryland penitentiary...
...ones. They are lighter and airier and much more commodious; but whether the corporation will go to the extent of heating the whole of lower Massachusetts for the use of the reading room during the winter season is a momentous question, whose answer is very doubtful. Another and more serious objection to Massachusetts as the permanent quarters of the reading room is that readers are continually disturbed and inconvenienced by the ever-recurring examinations which are held there. This objection might be considerably obviated if the authorities would be so considerate as to hold examinations as much as possible...