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...last number of Harper's Weekly, Casper Whitney discusses at length the recent action of Yale in regard to undergraduates on 'varsity teams. Although expressing himself strongly in favor of the effort to exclude all professional element from college sports and denying that Yale's action was taken with intent of "freezing out" the University of Pennsylvania, he does not commit himself as favoring the new rule. He argues with more or less reason that it is a narrow policy to exclude men in the professional school from participating in athletic contests and unjust to the honest student. He admits...
...judgment the following would go further in cleansing college sport and giving it a healthful national tone than restricting university athletics to the academic department...
...student shall be eligible as a member of any university team in any one of the four sports before mentioned after the expiration of the three academic years immediately following that in which he played for the first time in an intercollegiate contest with the university team representing the same sport...
...seventh and last hare and hounds run of the season will be held from the gymnasium this afternoon, starting at quarter of four. All men who enjoy this exhilerating sport are urged to turn out and take advantage of this opportunity to make the last run the most successful...
...team. Surely this state of things is radically wrong, and some steps should be taken to check it. Let all our readers who still revere our common alma mater and hope for her success in athletics do what they can to eradicate this professional element from this branch of sport...