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Emphatic approval was given to the action of the meeting by the following gentlemen called upon by the chair: Greve, '84, Clapp, '84, Hubbard, '83, foster, '80, Bancroft, '79, and Carpenter, '85. Mr. Bancroft feared that he himself "was a possible evil, which the faculty was trying to abolish." Graduates, generally, he thought, would agree with the distinction between professionalism (an evil) and the employment of professionals (often desirable). Mr. Hubbard said he felt more and more the conviction that athletics was a matter which properly and safely could be left to the students. The evils complained of would naturally...
...varsity and the senior crew rowed soon after noon yesterday, the former coached as usual by Col. Bancroft...
...definition of the faculty's idea of the term "professional" was brought out. Men employed as trainers who did not participate in sports for money like Mr. Camp of Yale and Col. Bancroft, the faculty did not for its purposes regard as professionals...
...this conference we should not judge that the faculty's prohibition was by any means so absolute as one would naturally imply from this statement. Indeed we do not understand that the college holds any objection to the employment of a trainer for the crews such as Col. Bancroft, nor wouldn't oppose the employment as permanent trainer of the other teams of any satisfactory and competent man, even if a professional who had abandoned his "profession" as a means of livelihood, and in future should exclusively devote himself to teaching out-door athletics under the employment and supervision...
...education. We do not know that the commission of any professional or dishonorable acts has been imputed to Mr. Ward, nor that otherwise his standing as a gentleman has bebn impugned. Doubtless many of the other cases named are much of the same sort. The case of Mr. Bancroft, coach of the Harvard crews, is decidedly inapt for the Times' argument. Why Mr. Bancroft engaged in instructing Harvard students in one branch of athletics, should be pursuing any less respectable calling than Dr. Sargent engaged in instructing the same students in another branch it is difficult to see. Surely...