Word: bona
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...this donation, a wish is expressed that the old teams be recorganized as far as possible under the same names and that the cups be competed for on practically the same conditions as in previous years. A special effort, however, will be made this year to have each team bona fide and not, as has sometimes happened, a mere collection of names with only a few actual players. If this is carried out, there will be little difficulty in having the games occur on scheduled time, without default by the weaker teams...
Rule 1.--No student shall be eligible unless he is and intends to be throughout the academic year, a bona fide member of the University, taking a full year's work in courses leading to a degree. His name must have been presented, at least two weeks in advance, to the Dean or Director of the Department in which he is enrolled, and declared by him to be in satisfactory standing...
...universities who wished to enter into Harvard athletics for the fun there was in them. Such individual injustice, however, for the sake of the general policy, must be overlooked. But the injustice to men who have been through Harvard College and are thus debarred would be great. They are bona fide Harvard men--the men in general the best and most reliable on a team. The records of these men are known; the records of graduate students from other colleges depends only on hearsay or on the testimonies of other athletic authorities often having dissimilar standards...