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...expense of clearing Norton's field intended to benefit teams in no way connected with Harvard? Is not the Cambridge Common good enough for these juvenile hordes? The official way in which the field is roped off and and taken possession of for these games, would lead one to think that these schools had authoritative permission to do so. Now there cannot be the slightest doubt under the existing circumstances, that they ought not to have this permission; if they do not have it, some one in authority ought to command them to play elsewhere and leave Norton's field...
...place to play foot ball. But the writer overlooks the fact that the field was taken to help 'varsity teams and that the cost of maintaining the grounds is paid by the University Associations. It is then, the right of 'varsity captains to dispose of the grounds as they think best. That there is great wisdom in encouraging this interscholastic league is made evident by merely glancing over the names of the men on the present eleven...
...Bible is not an infallible guide,- it was never meant for that. For then people would never think for themselves. The book is not to save us from the trouble of living and thinking, but to inspire us to work for a spiritual revelation, to wrestle for the truth, and, by our own efforts...
...fear, however, that all propositions Harvard is able to make would hardly be entertained by Princeton. The condition of the discussion at present is this: Our athletic committee have taken a firm stand against granting permission to the team to play outside of New England, and, unfortunately, as we think, has already this season made decisions which make it now impossible for us consistently to lay the rule aside. Yale proposed to play Harvard at New York on Thanksgiving day, but, regarding the rule, Harvard could not consider the proposal and the game will be played at Springfield. Moreover...
...which should be its friends, would be deplorable in its moral effect throughoutthe community. Besides undoing much of the best work of the past twenty-five years at Cambridge in building up the more advanced study and teaching of the junior and senior years, it would inevitably, and we think correctly be regarded as an abdication by Harvard of the leading position in regard to the higher liberal education which it now holds, and into which other colleges would promptly step. It would be interpreted as a surrender, or a serious concession, to the influences which constantly threaten the cause...