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...find them issuing some such well-considered manifesto as that which they directed against foot-ball last fall. We most heartily congratulate ourselves that no meeting of representatives of the Yale faculty and students has been found necessary to bring about a better understanding between them on this subject of 'professionalism.' Our faculty has maintained a consistent policy which has the full support of the students, and we know just where they stand today, and feel confident that they will not change their position in a night and spring some galling restriction on our athletics without a warning...
...culture. I do not believe that this aspect of the question has been sufficiently studied, particularly here at Harvard. The entire discussion of the Greek question has been made on so-called practical grounds. Our professors and our magazine-writers have confined themselves in their debates on the subject to what a speaker in the Harvard Union so aptly called the "bread-and-butter" view. "We must consult the spirit of the times in which we live. That spirit tends entirely towards progress, towards the substitution of new and more practical ideas for those which have governed the world...
During the recent convention of representatives from Harvard, Yale and other colleges to consider the subject of athletics, one of the speakers unbosomed himself thus: "Athletics have come to the pass where they are no longer fair and open trials of strength and skill, but on the contrary, as at present conducted, they train the young men to look upon victory as the rewards of treachery and deceit. That this is the case, anyone who has seen the game of baseball as it is played by the so-called best college nines will at once admit. For the pitcher, instead...
...ascended to a great height in the air and has been suspended there ever since. This theory is supported by Prof. Shaler. These and many other explanations have been advanced, but whatever the cause of this phenomenon, we all can admire its beauty and not trouble ourselves about a subject that will never be satisfactorily explained...
...must always come back finally to the result of centuries of experience, that the surest instrument that can be used in training the mind of youth is given us in the study of the languages, the literature, and the works of art of classical antiquity." Speaking further on the subject, Prof. Hoffman says "There is accordingly no lack of practical experience, and the result is that the belief which had already been entertained has been strengthened. Ideality in academic study, unselfish devotion to science for its own sake, and that unshackled activity of thought which is at once the condition...