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...captain of the Princeton nine, says the N. Y. Tribune, has openly declared that under such restrictions as those recently proposed in the N. Y. conference he will not attempt the management of the team, and other old players have avowed their intention of giving up the sport. One of them was heard to say that if the champion Yale was excluded, the contests would be reduced to walk over, and all interest and enthusiasm would be at an end. This is the general verdict at Princeton...
Ball-playing, boating, etc., are engaged in by students as recreations, and students ought not to be expected to compete on equal terms with those who make the practice of these recreative sports the business of their lives. Students who compete or practice with professionals gain in experience and skill, but this renders it necessary that their college opponents should have a similar advantage, or the terms would be unequal. This would lead to the employment of professionals in every branch of competitive sport. But as the character of professionals, as a whole, is not high, it is believed that...
...they get. Time is often of great importance to them; but their physical powers are in demand, and this double draft upon their energies sometimes costs them their degrees. Men have been induced to enter the professional schools after graduation, that they might help retain the championship for certain sports. The evil of such a course is two-fold. It tends to raise the standard of the sport beyond the capacity of the undergraduate, and thus limits the number that can participate in it. It makes hard work of what was intended as a recreation. Therefore...
...clubs and players throughout this part of the United States, where the game is most prevalent, it would be particularly fitting that the Harvard club should have at least one man on it. The Harvard club was the first among the colleges to take up this interesting and invigorating sport. To it is chiefly due the position which the game holds among students today, if having taken the initiative in forming a stable association of college clubs. Our club, too, has held the championship since inter-collegiate contests were inaugurated. For these reasons our men should try to win positions...
...However, the subject was much discussed, and, after some strong opposing articles in the Princetonian, a meeting was called to elect officers of the boating association and to consider the advisability of supporting a crew in the college. The meeting resulted in a unanimous decision in favor of the sport. The following issue of the Princetonian contained a leading article condemnatory of the meeting and its action was sustained by a number of letters from the Alumni condemning boating. This policy was pursued by the paper through two numbers, and, as a result, and to afford the college another opportunity...