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...several years past a change has been gradually occurring in physical training at Harvard. As has been shown before, the old system developed simply a few champions, and the little action of the faculty was in the shape of arbitrary rules, passed to render sports subservient to study. Under the new system, commenced with the introduction of Dr. Sargent, the faculty recognized the necessity of exercise holding a place beside study, and to that end have appointed a committee on athletics, who have a general supervision over all forms of exercise. The watchword of the old system was arbitrary prohibition...
...prosperity, the next attention of the faculty was to the various athletic and sporting associations, and to the carrying out of the third and fourth of the above propositions. In this regard their moving incentive seemed to be that competition and tournaments had become a fixity in the college system, and the question which was left for them to determine was, how to bring the best influence to bear upon the students taking part. As a result of their deliberation a set of "Regulations of the Committee on Athletics" have been adopted...
...above laudable views will result disastrously to the competitions in which Harvard is to enter, as has been predicted by the foretellers, is a question which, however satisfactorily settled to the minds of the wiseacres, can only be settled after a fair and lengthy trial of the new system. Sufficient to say that Harvard does not intend to withdraw her teams from the field, and hopes to present a satisfactory showing wherever gentlemanly prowess is called into competition. - [Spirit of the Times...
...Harvard Union debate tonight will be on the question, "Resolved, That the system of athletics in vogue at Harvard during recent years is for the best interests of the students...
...meeting of the Harvard Union tomorrow evening the question for debate will be: "Resolved, That the system of athletics in vogue at Harvard during recent years is for the best interests of the students." The principal disputants are, affirmative - G. E. Lowell, '83; T. J. Coolidge, '84. Negative - W. B. Noble, '84; F. I. Carpenter...