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...there are at least two which the great body of students whould feel to be uncalled for at the present time and proper to be mentioned only as remote possibilities. These are,-first, the abolition of freshman intercollegiate contests; and, secondly, biennial intercollegiate contests by 'varsity teams in each sport...
...light of these principles most of the sports pursued here are not only unobjectionable but positively serviceable. In the highly competive sports which give rise to exciting intercollegiate contests, namely, boat-racing, baseball and football, some evils of a serious nature have in recent years been developed. In the first place, the time devoted to these sports by the principal teams and crews is excessive. No sport which requires of the players more than two hours a day during term time is fit for college uses. The large sums of gate money are often wastefully and ineffectively spent. To football...
After summarizing the advantages and the disadvantages which have resulted from the gret development of athletic sports at American colleges within the past twenty-five years, the President says: "If the evils of athletic sports are mainly those of exaggeration and excess, it ought not to be impossible to point out and apply appropriate checks. The following changes would certainly diminish the existing evils: (1) There should be no freshman intercollegiate matches or races; (2) no games, intercollegiate or other, should be played on any but college flelds, belonging to one of the competitors, in college towns; (3) no professional...
...eligible to take part in public contests, but that freshmen should be prohibited from participating. Another good restriction, he thinks, would be found in diminishing the frequency of great intercollegiate contests. With this end in view, it would be well to have important contests in the same branch of sport come only every other year. He is also in favor of having rules that will ensure greater safety to players by preventing mass plays and the like. A fuller account of President Eliot's views will be published in the CRIMSON as soon as the report is given out publicly...