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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Stickney's letter affirms that at Cambridge they were not willing to do much for him. Mr. Ames writes from Princeton that he will do all he can for Mr. Stickney in every way, and that he can get him his board, tuition, etc., free: adding that athletic men get by all odds better treatment at Princeton than in any other of the colleges. The precise nature of the assistance received by Mr. Stickney at Cambridge is stated in the following letter...
...other way, direct or indirect, have I received any pecuniary assistance from any association or individual for taking part in athletics at Harvard College. Nor has any such assistance been offered...
...bona fide students has a pernicious effect on the teams, on the colleges, and on the sport. College athletics have become infected with professionalism, and there is no prospect of improvement under the present League. The spirit of recent conventions has been that of casting formal difficulties in the way of a proper agreement between gentlemen. We are convinced that the League in its present form is an obstacle to genuine sport...
...gentlemen except upon their presentation of vouchers covering the amount of the preceeding week's expenses, all of which vouchers I have in my desk and can produce if necessary. The amount we limited you to per week for board and lodging cannot in any way be regarded as payment for your services, as in limiting you to a certain amount it was not intended that it should be looked upon as an allowance for your services, but we merely wanted to have a limit on the amount of the expenses of the players so that they would not lead...
...Testament and the New. There is the same message at the close of the Old Testament and the beginning of the New. "I am the culmination of the prophets" He looks at the future, not last, but first; he holds the door open. Every man in his little way stands between the past and the future, the old and the new. In the life here a man has the advantages and collected thought of the past systematized for his use, and in the face of this beneficence he feels humble. His hope that he may deserve this...