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...foregoing statement by Mr. Caspar Whitney appeared in the current issue of Collier's Weekly under the head of "The Sportman's View-Point." The essence of the paragraphs devoted to Harvard is that basketball and swimming were given up because they did not pay, and that "minor sports" here are being discouraged. Both of these assertions simply denote total unfamiliarity with the situation...
...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...