Word: abolishion
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Dates: during 1888-1888
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...Harvard. The report of the majority is open to criticism. Many of the facts therein detailed are undoubtedly true, but it is difficult to understand how a fair-minded body of men could have clamly and deliberately drawn such an exaggerated conclusion as the recommendation of the entire abolishion of intercollegiate contests. This conclusion is not justified by the premises, as any candid observer of both sides of the question must allow. The report says, for example, that athletics have tended to become the ruling passion at Harvard and that they have grown to this enormous degree of importance...
...have not space to enter into more detailed criticism of the report, but these few points have struck us as being the most important. The majority, in recommending the abolishion of intercollegiate contests, have aimed a blow at Harvard interests, which, if it takes effect, will have a material influence over the coming welfare of the university. The minority have recommended a milder course-the abolition of all intercollegiate contests save with Yale or other colleges within New England. Whether this would be a wise measure or not, it is difficult to decide at the present moment. It is certainly...
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