Word: amateur
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...resolution, excluding professional trainers, student opinion is divided. No one objects to the general theory that professionalism should be excluded from our athletics. But a great many do object to the methods which have been adopted to exclude that professionalism. The faculty certainly would not wish us to have amateur teachers in mathematics or physics, for instance. Still it may be answered, that in the opinion of the faculty, the character of professional teachers of mathematics and physics is, as a whole, higher than that of professional baseball players. Suppose that we grant this to be true; does it follow...
...with professional trainers. It is thought at Brown that the resolutions would practically kill baseball, which is the only sport which is much practised there. The reason assigned is that Brown compels its students to attend recitations regularly and thus practice can only be obtained from local professional and amateur nines. Otherwise than with regard to baseball the regulations do not particularly affect Brown. Nevertheless the decision of their faculty will be awaited with interest...
Boston will not have the National Amateur Regatta this year. The choice now lies between Philadelphia and Washington...
...Boston Herald is authority for the statement that "amateur umpires" will be the next phase that the antiprofessional crusade at Harvard will assume...
Baxter '83, will compete for the amateur U. S. championship in heavyweight boxing...