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...faculty that intercollegiate sports should be narrowed down to contests between Harvard and Yale. This is the opinion of the conservative element. Having reduced the contests to Harvard and Yale, the faculty feel that they can bring sufficient pressure to bear upon the Yale faculty to induce them to abolish professional practice at that college. Here, it seems to us, the faculty is at fault. Even supposing such an arrangement could be made, which is a matter of great doubt, the faculty would find further obstacles in this path of reform. The gentlemen who compose the faculty at Yale know...
...government is in the hands of the people, no such attitude is possible. It is of vital importance to the life of the Repulic that any device be used to raise wages. This may be accomplished by what Clay calls "the American system," yet it is proposed to abolish this, and thus expose the American workingman to the competition of the pauper labor of Europe...
...Believing that the best way to encourage this spirit is to place the responsibility upon the students themselves, we respectfully urge the Faculty to abolish the restriction which prevents the college nine from playing with other than amateur clubs, leaving to the undergraduate managers and the athletic committee of the Faculty the settlement of such limitations of this privilege as may seem advisable...
President Eliot, on being questioned as to whether the statement made in the Fact and Rumor column in yesterday's CRIMSON, that he was in favor of abolishing all inter-collegiate contests, was true; said that he was decidedly in favor of continuing them, since they were in a fair way to become properly regulated. He is, however, of the opinion that there are too many of them, and thinks that Yale should be our only opponent, and that our games with Princeton and Columbia should be given up. President Eliot would, also, if he had the power, abolish...
...answer to a question on Monday evening, President Eliot said that he disapproved of all intercollegiate contests of every kind, and would abolish them if he had the power...