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...purpose of ideal college athletics is to furnish all who desire it an opportunity for exercise made more interesting by competition. Athletes of repute whose sole aim in college is to make a name and perhaps a professional position have no place in amateur sport. But the athlete of small means who is honestly aiming for the best in a university education should not be shut out from benefits, physical or social, because some friendly alumnus sees fit to assist him with funds...
...step toward a fair and honest treatment of the question is the examination of individual cases of doubtful standing by a faculty athletic advisor. A professor, at least, could be trusted to decide such matters with impartiality toward both man and college, and sport would be rid of the charges of lying professionals...
...addition to pictures of practically every major sport team since that time, as well as many of the athletic buildings and playing fields, past and present, the book will contain histories of the beginning and growth at Cambridge of each of the sports, written by University players of different periods, thus practically covering the period of the existence of intercollegiate athletics in this country...
...sculling trophies are to be awarded to the University champions in that sport. The first of these is the single Scull Championship Cup which was presented in 1887 by Mr. R. P. Carroll '85 and Mr. J. E. Thayer '85. It was won last spring by C. S. Nutt '24. The other sculling trophy is the Harvard University Regents Cup which was awarded for annual competition...