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...learn to prepare for athletic contests with a shorter period of training. Judging by English experience, training in American colleges covers a period unnecessarily long; and athletics are taken too much as hard work and not enough as genuine pleasure. In England men go into athletics primarily for pure sport, and are not inclined to overestimate the value of victory, as we are. We should also learn from the English to keep our games the same from year to year, without attempting to vary them by new and tricky plays which have to be practiced in secret behind high fences...
...member of any team, who, either before or since entering the University, shall have engaged in any athletic competition, whether for a stake, or a money prize, or a share of the entrance fees or admission money; or who shall have taught or engaged in any athletic exercise or sport as a means of livelihood; or who shall at any time have received for taking part in any athletic sport or contest any pecuniary gain or emolument whatever, direct or indirect, with the single exception that he may have received from the College organization, or from any permanent amateur association...
...offer takes the form of an agreement that a student playing upon a hotel nine shall receive his board and pay in such a way that his violation of the amateur rule shall never be detected. I need not point out to Harvard students how undermining of decent amateur sport this practice might become. Every effort should be made to break it up amongst college men. Any student who goes to a hotel where he receives his board for nothing, even though at the invitation of some friend, is likely to place himself under suspicion if he plays baseball. There...
...number also contains "A Summer's Day" by R. Pier '03, "The Sport" by R. A. Wood '03, and "Blue-Eyed Bass...
...scheme has been strongly endorsed by representatives of Yale, Harvard. Pennsylvania, Cornell and by other clubs and individuals who have the best interests of the sport at heart...