Word: amateurs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...inauguration President Hadley referred to me as the President of our greatest University, which shows that to a certain extent we have the affection and admiration of other university already. You read the other day now Yale had of her own initiative disqualified five athletes for unwitting infraction of amateur rules, and you read that Harvard begged Yale not to do it. You may think that is quixotic, but I maintain that it is the true spirit of sportsmanship among gentlemen...
...Robinson, a former student of Professor Baker, and "The Purple Dream," a fantastic one-act comedy by D. L. Breed 2L., a graduate of English 47, who is now taking English 47a. Beginning with this production the Workshop is experimenting with a new plan for an amateur stock company. This company, includes a number of actors and actresses from Cambridge and Boston who will give their services for the year to the Workshop. With this company. Professor Baker hopes to carry out the plan which Miss Horniman has so successfully tried in connection with her famous Manchester Theatre which...
...cynical or sceptical persons it may seem incredible that the five athletes, who must have heard endless talk about the professionalism of summer ball, were substantially innocent; it is at least equally incredible that a group of the best Yale athletes should wittingly jeopardize their amateur status by openly doing what invited investigation and would not bear it. The endless talk they have heard may itself be one cause of their ignorance. Nothing is more be wildering nothing is viewed in more varied and contradictory ways, than the ethics and the academic result, of summer ball-playing. There...
Providing favorable action is taken by the governors of the Intercollegiate Association of Amateur. Athletes of America, many changes will be made when the second indoor games for college athletes are staged at Madison Square Garden March 4. A special meeting will be held in Boston November 19, on the eve of the annual intercollegiate cross-country race, to take action on the proposed changes. The event last year was much in the nature of an experiment, and the actual competition showed where there might be improvement in the future. The main idea is still adhered to, that of making...
This is partly owing to ignorance of their existence and nature. The Dante Prize, the Sales Prize for Spanish students, the Summer and Bennett Prizes in political science, the Boott and Knight Prizes in musical composition. The very desirable Lloyd McKim Garrison Prize for amateur poets, the Potter prizes in Comparative Literature,--these are some of the most important of the other rewards offered for intellectual effort. They are often overlooked, not only by the diffident or lazy, but by men who confine their competition to the Bowdoin Prizes. There are also prizes exclusively for Freshmen,--the Belknap in French...