Word: abolishing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...estimate competition, we can hear this party say; abolish all regular training and organized efforts to play a "scientific" game; return to the rules and customs of the simple sports of early boyhood. It is on this point only that debate is to come, then we have an issue clearly defined, and we do not hesitate to attack such a position as the above as plainly untenable. We have not many hopes of convincing those members of the faculty who hold to such a belief after having soberly considered the arguments on both sides already brought forward, so utterly alien...
Emphatic approval was given to the action of the meeting by the following gentlemen called upon by the chair: Greve, '84, Clapp, '84, Hubbard, '83, foster, '80, Bancroft, '79, and Carpenter, '85. Mr. Bancroft feared that he himself "was a possible evil, which the faculty was trying to abolish." Graduates, generally, he thought, would agree with the distinction between professionalism (an evil) and the employment of professionals (often desirable). Mr. Hubbard said he felt more and more the conviction that athletics was a matter which properly and safely could be left to the students. The evils complained of would naturally...
...colleges with which she competed. There were three courses open to the college. Either it should allow the present system to be stretched to its full limit and permit professionalism to gain complete sway over our sports, or it should secure the co-operation of other colleges and abolish all intercourse with professionals, or finally the college should withdraw completely from inter-collegiate contests. Prof. White expressed himself as being strongly in favor of continuing such contests. President Eliot stated that although some dozen years ago he had expressed himself in favor of such a move at present...
...corner of the room, and pointed significantly towards the door, by which the terrified man made his escape with some precipitation. We may venture to mention here a piece of history for the benefit of future historians of Harvard College. In the spring of 1858, it was proposed to abolish the barbarous custom of having morning prayers at six o'clock in the spring and summer. Mr. Sophocles had already given his vote for the change, but before the result could be announced by the president, the not infrequent excitement of a small bonfire on the steps of University Hall...
...necessity for changes more radical than these is now evident. In our opinion, the whole solution of the difficulty consists in obtaining a referee who will have the courage and the inclination to exert all the powers of his office to bring about fair and manly play. Abolish all rules such as rules 28 and 38, which prohibit intentional striking with fists, throttling, tripping, etc. In their place have a rule giving the referee carte blanche to send any player from the field whose conduct in his opinion, is unbecoming a gentleman...