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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...memorable evening were not commissions, that it was rather ill-management than ill will that led to the discomforts of the affair. The subtle and delicate sympathy for the members of the Pierian which evidently inspired the men to make the aspersions on the management of the Tennis Association, cannot fail to have a softening influence on the cold and biting memories of that night...
...shove him over, but you must not touch him with your hands. And it's a foul, too, if the ball hits your arm below the elbow. The great point about the Association game is that it is not so rough as the Rugby. Of course you cannot play foot-ball without being a bit rough, but it is not nearly so bad as Rugby...
...publish elsewhere a short account of President Eliot's report to the Board of Overseers. We concur most heartily in what is said about voluntary chapel and the other questions concerning the college. But in the final paragraph relating to athletic sports, we find sentiments expressed with which we cannot entirely agree. Admitting that "foot-ball, base-ball, and rowing are liable to abuses." yet we cannot see that these abuses are altogether of the kind President Eliot mentions. Extravagant expenditure and betting are, to be sure, abuses which exist and flourish abnormally. Our position in regard to them...
...ball players and the crews, the interruption of college work which exaggerated interest in the frequent ball matches causes, betting, trickery condoned by a public opinion which demands victory, and the hysterical demonstrations of the college public over successful games. These follies can best be kept in check-they cannot be eradicated-by reducing the number of intercollegiate competitions to the lowest terms. The number of these competitions is at present excessive from every point of view. Wrestling, sparring and football-games which involve violent personal collision-have to be constantly watched and regulated, lest they become brutal.- Boston Advertiser...
...race has led history; and why it should be so lacking here I do not know. Perhaps my vision of the facts is distorted. But it seems to me that, if it is not, this is the reform in "college opinion" which we most deeply need. If individuals cannot be sent to Coventry, no matter what they do, how can we ever get the tone of honor here which we might get-a tone in many respects much higher than that of the outer world...