Word: caspar
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...William Caspar Graustein, Cambridge...
...William Caspar Graustein...
...February number of the Outing Magazine Mr. Caspar Whitney has come out with a vehement attack on college baseball players who take part in "summer baseball" for one consideration or another. Mr. Whitney is not wrong in his estimate of the corrupting influence of this "crooked amateur," but he directs his remarks against Harvard, Yale and Princeton "because of their prominence in the college world and not at all to single them out as graver offenders than others." He commends President Tucker's act in disqualifying certain guilty players at Dartmouth "to President Eliot of Harvard, President Hadley of Yale...
...what purports to be "a deliberate critical review of Harvard's (athletic) course for twenty years," Mr. Caspar Whitney has sought to explain and comment on the upheaval in our athletics during the past year in the May "Outing," which has just appeared. Had Mr. Whitney taken the trouble to ascertain the facts of the situation more carefully, his opinions as an impartial observer would carry more weight with those of us, at least, who are more or less familiar with conditions. When he says that soon after the Yale football game last fall, the Governing Boards appointed an investigating...
...Olympic Games Committee at Athens, on account of its desire to have America well represented, has contributed $1500 toward the American fund, and the Amateur Athletic Union will probably also contribute toward this fund. Board and lodging will be given the American athletes at greatly reduced rates. President Caspar Whitney of the American committee has called a meeting of the committee to be held at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York tomorrow...