Word: actions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Considerable criticism was made up on the methods which the Committee took last evening for stopping free debate on the subject of the abolition of foot ball, after a notice had been published, inviting students to be present who wished "to show cause why action should not be taken...
...Athletic Committee and the Graduate Committee are perhaps better qualified to judge than we are. But I maintain we should insist on being consulted, we should insist on having the facts carefully considered, as far as concerns the need of a paid coach. My private opinion is that the action of the committees is a compromise. They wish to get rid of a man. They see abuses that are not due merely and solely to the use of a paid coach; they don't like to attack a man, and so they compromise on forbidding the use of a paid...
...action of the Athletic Committee in forbidding the employment of a paid coach, seems to be unwarranted and unwise. To make good this statement, we shall first give the Committee's reasons for their action, and then our reasons against it. The considerations influencing the Committee will be stated as fully as they could be ascertained in an interview with one of the Committee...
...they object to the employment of any paid coach for the crew. As the second objection covers the first, we can drop Mr. Bancroft's name from the discussion, and consider the advisability of retaining a paid coach. The general explanation offered by the Committee for their course of action, is as follows. Athletics at Harvard must be freed from all objectionable features. The onward march toward professionalism is to be stopped, and a step backwards taken. In a word, athletics in all departments are to be restored to their pristine purity, safety, and cheapness. The students must dispense entirely...
...above is an attempt at a fair statement of the arguments urged by the committee in support of it's action. What do the students respond...