Word: athleticism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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"The 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...
"Intercollegiate athletic contests bring out a man's college feeling more effectually than anything else can, and to abolish them in a college would be very perceptibly to diminish the interest of the students in that college as a whole by removing one of the most effective and legitimate means...
The faculty, as a body is more liberal. We can scarcely believe that they would entertain such a monstrous proposition as that made by the Overseers. Such a radical change in the whole athletic system would, we firmly believe, put the axe to the roots of our social system as...
Voted, Whereas, in the opinion of this board, an undue prominence is now given to athletic contests in the college, and the excesses and abuses attending the same and mainly incidental to intercollegiate contests should all be checked and guarded against for the future; therefore,
An address to the college faculty by numberous signers, urging that the restriction be abolished which prevents the college nine from playing with other than amateur clubs, and a letter to the board from R. H. Dana upon the subject of athletic exercises, were received and laid on the table...