Word: canker
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Committee in refusing to ratify the election of Captain Waters. We believe that every member of the University, no matter in what department, has a vested right to represent Harvard in athletics. This vested right it has been found necessary to abridge to a certain extent to kill the canker that threatened the very life of intercollegiate athletics-the so-called "professional" athlete. This was done by the one year residence clause, which has met with almost universal approval, and by the four year time limit, the advisability of which is by no means so certain. But in the present...