Word: actions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...action of the Harvard college overseers in recommending the prohibition of intercollegiate competitions has caused much excitement in college circles. E. J. Wendell, the well-known Harvard athlete has decided views on the question. Mr. Wendell was captain of the victorious Harvard team which won the Mott Haven cup in '80, '81 and '82. In '80 he won the intercollegiate championships at 100 yards, 220 yards and one-quarter mile, a feat never before or since accomplished by one man in one day. Mr. Wendell is still actively interested in Harvard athletic matters, and his opinion reflects to a large...
...Board of Overseers have at last taken action upon the majority and minority reports made by the Committee. Their action seems to us in the highest degree narrow-minded, and marks a strong check to the liberal tendency which should prevail in a great university like Harvard. Their recommendation amounts, in substance, to simply this: To prohibit all freshman intercollegiate contests in baseball, football, rowing and lacrosse; to allow none but University teams to engage in intercollegiate contests, and those only with Yale and minor New England college, thus barring out Columbia, Princeton, University of Pennsylvania and others...
Yesterday's Herold published a long letter from R. H. Dana, '74, captain of the 'varsity crew for two years, in which he sharply criticizes the action of the Board of Overseers...
...going. A little more forethought will make such cause of complaint unnecessary in the future. The other thing was more serious. The '90 boat, when it got the lead, steered into '89 water, and for over three-quarters of a mile gave the junior crew their swash. Whether this action was intentional on the part of the sophomore boat or not, it is to be reprehended, for it takes from the race what it ought above all things to have-equal advantages for all the crews rowing. Fortunately, the afternoon was much clearer and pleasanter than the morning gave promise...
...greatly to be regretted that the faculty have seen fit to delay action on the petition presented by the Alumni on the question of playing with professionals. If the question is to be decided at all, it is much better that it should be decided at once. We have faith enough in the members of the faculty to know that they are unwilling to decide such a momentous question without due deliberation, but we cannot see why the faculty should wait till the Overseers make their report. As we understand it, the petition was presented to the faculty...