Word: boarding
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Board of Overseers have at last taken action upon the majority and minority reports made by the Committee. Their action seems to us in the highest degree narrow-minded, and marks a strong check to the liberal tendency which should prevail in a great university like Harvard. Their recommendation amounts, in substance, to simply this: To prohibit all freshman intercollegiate contests in baseball, football, rowing and lacrosse; to allow none but University teams to engage in intercollegiate contests, and those only with Yale and minor New England college, thus barring out Columbia, Princeton, University of Pennsylvania and others...
...other words the Board of Overseers wish to put such restrictions upon us as practically to do away with all contests with outsiders. They think they have found the best way to accomplish this; but if they think that such a scheme will promote the cause of general athletics and materially lessen the evils which they imagine arise from intercollegiate contests, we venture to say they will find they are mistaken. It they wish to reduce Harvard University to the level of a boarding school and treat the students as mere striplings, well and good; but we are inclined...
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...
Voted, That in the opinion of this board contests should take place only in Cambridge, New Haven and such other New England city or town as the committee on athletics may from time to time designate; that university teams alone should be permitted to take part in the intercollegiate contests; that students should be prohibited from taking part in contests with organizations not belonging to the university, except on Saturdays and holidays...
...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...