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Johnny: - "Why, the Clipper says that last summer the Harvard crew gave the Yale men their wash." - [Chaff...
...York Clipper has the following: "The fiat of the faculty against Harvard's playing with professional teams will not do the college nine any good, and is regarded by the public generally-including many Harvard graduates-as simply ridiculous." We do not know about the feelings of the public generally in regard to speak for the graduates of Harvard. Among undergraduates, however, the "fiat" has come to be almost universally approved. Just what the Clipper means by the "good" of the nine is uncertain; but if it refers to increased efficiency in playing, we would remark that...
...Graphic, Springfield Republican, Worcester Evening Gazette, New Haven Union, Music and the Drama, San Francisco Call. Weekly-Sunday Herald (two copies), Sunday Globe, Saturday Evening Gazette, Saturday Evening Traveller, Woman's Journal, Weekly Magazine, Unity, Index, Louisville Courier Journal, Cambridge Tribune, Vicksburg Herald, New York Weekly Witness, New York Clipper, Spirit of the Times, Turf, Field and Farm, Harper's Weekly, Life, Punch, Puck, London Illustrated News, London Graphic, The Nation, Progress, Good Literature, Episcopal Recorder, Musical Critic and Trade Review, The Wheel, Bicycling World, San Francisco Argonaut. Monthly-Musical Herald, Wheelman, Modern Age. College papers-Yale Courant, Record...
...article in the last number of the N. Y. Clipper, in discussing the movement towards the reduction in membership of the college base-ball league, betrays such an entire misconception of the question and, indeed, of the whole spirit of college athletics, that we cannot let it pass without comment. "The proposal," says the Clipper, with an insight of which no one not thorougly imbued with the spirit of "professionalism" would be capable of displaying, "has a very suspicious taint of gate-money influences about it." Now, we beg leave to state that the argument of increased gate receipts...
...When the Clipper states in the next breath that it does not see why every college club in the country should not have its name enrolled on the association books, it displays its entire ignorance of the aim of college athletics...