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...work than finally appear in the great contests, such, for instance, as the ambition to secure an office or position in one of the university organizations, and thus an honorable standing as a college man." He gives quite an elaborate account of the number of men training on the various teams and of the time actually devoted by them to athletics. Continuing he says: "It would be putting the estimate too low to say that at least half of the undergraduate members of the academic and scientific departments get quite a regular amount of systematic out-door exercise from...
...first of many more such meetings, called to discuss both other as well as similar subjects. It is evident that there is at present little to be done by the students in the matter. We can only await the outcome of the negotiations now in progress between the various college faculties and our own. We certainly hope that the outcome of those negotiations will result in justifying the course of the Harvard faculty and at the same time in satisfying the reasonable demands of undergraduate opinion...
...Bureau of Education at Washington has sent a circular to the college asking for information as to the amount of attention paid to hygiene and athletic sports. Mr. Hubbard, the president's secretary, is collecting a complete set of data for 1882-3, from the various athletic organizations...
...discussing the faculty's attitude towards professionalism in athletics, we characterized the course of the committee on athletics as having been more than once marked by inconsistency and disingenuousness. At the time we based our criticism of this committee on two points; firstly, on the report which appeared in various college papers, notably the Yale News, and thence widely copied, that a member of this committee had avowed that the chief object of the prohibition of the Harvard eleven from playing its foot-ball game with the Yale eleven last fall had been to draw attention to the condition...
...taste and letters, as a patron of artists and authors, and as the friend of almost every illustrious man that has graced our annals for the last half century or more, that Mr. Rogers chiefly engaged the public at tention." His colleges works have been published in various forms...