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...although brief they are comprehensive and imperative. The rule (1) as to playing with professionals, is directly to the point, and it will be seen utterly forbids all competition with professionals by any college club. Although we have our doubts as to the necessity for and wisdom of so stringent a rule, there can be no doubt that it will be a benefit in checking entirely any tendency towards professionalism that might hereafter arise in our athletics. The regulation in regard to trainers is equally strict and severe - arbitrarily so it may seem to many. The third rule...
...teachers must be increased, while the income is diminished by strict examinations. The school now requires for admission, a college diploma as evidence of general mental discipline, or an examination; a three years course of study; a thorough examination to pass from year to year, and an equally stringent examination for the degree. This is the way to make a learned profession really learned; and as lawyers are often regarded as necessary evils (pace HOOKER), it is a matter of high public concern to render them as innocuous as possible. The immediate call is for the library. A good beginning...
...seems as if the public press would never cease from its attacks on college students. This time it comes from Philadelphia in a newspaper called the Times. "For several years the public has noted with dismay the gradual decay of the ancient safeguards which stringent discipline was supposed to throw about the educational pathway of the young and rising generation," moralizes the Times. "The moral of college government is greatly relaxed, and our venerable eleemosynary and other institutions of learning are fast becoming the theatres of disorder and excess." This paper then makes the rather remarkable statement that "Harvard, Yale...
...reported that since the death of Mr. Durant, and the absence on vacations of the president of Wellesley College, the students at that institution enjoy some relief from their numerous restrictions, many of which were absurdly stringent...
...Board of Directors, after a long discussion of possible methods, decided on this new rule as the only one that would be both practicable and effectual. We are sure that, even now, they would gladly accept any suggestions as to a way of solving the difficulty without such a stringent exclusion as is at present necessitated...