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...regarded as sufficient reason why they should not play on a Harvard team for a season. The Athletic Committee desires to do what is fair by the men, but they have a right to expect co-operation on the part of all players in the maintenance of clean amateur sport at Harvard. No student ought to play on a professional nine whether he receives money or not, as by doing so he puts the University under suspicion. There is no objection whatever to a student playing a game of ball with his friends for fun at any time of year...
...that may arise in regard to athletic contests, eligibility rules, and a satisfactory channel of communication. Several weeks or months may be required to revise the rules in order to get the best out of them, but a final arrangement may be expected which will maintain friendly and uninterrupted sport in the future...
Various statements that have been made from time to time concerning the effect of success or failure in athletic sports on the resort to colleges have induced President Eliot to prepare tables of statistics giving the actual results, in terms of victory and defeat, of athletic contests between Harvard and Yale and between Yale and Princeton in each of the last ten years, and the registration of students in the subsequent academic years corresponding therewith. In commenting on the tables. President Eliot says: "One might suppose that the most immediate effect of victory or defeat in athletic sports would appear...
...very large. If the expense is larger than the subscription of one dollar apiece assessed last year, why could not the amount be made two dollars apiece; or why should not the Athletic Association pay part? For a large number of men skating is the only form of outdoor sport (skating other than hockey, that is) open since the number of men indulging in training for the track team is comparatively small. Why may these men not have a rink, or, at least, be allowed to use the class rinks during some part of the day? If the athletic facilities...
...which would in any way impugn his amateur standing was accepted. The part of our rule under which the decision was rendered reads as follows: "No student shall be allowed to represent Harvard University in any public contest who shall have taught or engaged in any athletic exercise or sport as a means of livelihood." Additional evidence has only recently been sent to Harvard in the shape of a receipted bill showing conclusively that Mr. Cutts had been paid in 1899 for giving boxing lessons to a boy in the preparatory school where he taught. He was therefore clearly ineligible...