Word: amateur
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...definitely decided that the club should hold a race meeting at Beacon park on Wednesday, May 23d. It is expected that entries will be obtained from the different prominent college bicycle clubs, making the meeting primarily an inter-collegiate one. There will also be several races open to all amateurs which will bring in the best riders from the different amateur clubs in this vicinity and elsewhere. At present the single bicycle race at the inter-collegiate games in New York hardly affords sufficient opportunity for all college riders to test their strength. The races at Beacon park will give...
...difficult to assign any satisfactory reason for this condition of affairs. It cannot be that taste and talent have seriously deteriorated. It is possible indeed that college students have become so much more critical and exacting in their demands in this kind of music that it is difficult for amateur composers any longer to command sufficient spontaneity and self-confidence for the production of lively and "taking" college songs. The most plausible explanation of the change, however, is found in the recent growth and wide-spread popularity of comic opera and similar music of the day. It is suggested that...
...present object of these rules is partial restriction, not arbitrary prohibition. The ultimate aim is the establishment of a fixed and definite position for college athletics, and to draw a marked line between it, professionalism, and even perhaps the ordinary amateur's position. The key-note to the situation may best be learned from the following remarks, which were made in the course of conversation by a member of the college faculty...
...tell me any reason why the base ball team should be allowed to compete with professionals, and still retain its standing, while if an amateur athlete enters with a professional his standing as such is forever lost? If we were entirely to ignore professional assistance, why should we permit the teaching of boxing or fencing by such? No: the truth is, we wish everything under our charge, that we may learn exactly what moral influences are being brought to bear upon the student...
...amenities of amateur journalism at the preparatory schools is illustrated by the following item from the Phillipian (Andover): "The Exonian still continues to give forth most lamentable whines; so does a whipped...