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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...position on the football question which President Eliot took in his annual report is not strengthened by the Nation's endorsement, which we quote in another column. There is a very suggestive difference in the respective attitudes of President Eliot and the Nation. From beginning to end of President Eliot's severe arraignment of the game of football as it is now played, there is nothing said in criticism of the game itself to which any reasonable man can take exception. It is a forcible statement of valid objections to the game. His failure to mention the beneficial features...
...feel that we must explain through this column the reason for the absence from the CRIMSON of all but the most meagre and unsatisfactory scraps of 'varsity crew news. The closing of the rowing room in the Carey Building was only a preparatory step to excluding all news of the crew from the daily papers and the college world. But news still leaked out from those who rowed on the crew until even such communications were forbidden peremptorily. Mr. Watson's ultimatum was that no news of the crew should be printed unless with his direct consent...
...invite all members of the University to contribute to this column, but we are not responsible for the sentiments expressed...
...football tournament between the teams of Harvard and Yale in Springfield had terrible results. It turned into an awful butchery. Of twenty-two participants seven were so severely injured that they had to be carried from the field in a senseless condition. The vertebral column of one was put out of joint; a second one's nose was broken; a third lost an eye and a fourth broke his leg. The rest suffered severe internal injuries...
...inclined to agree with the writer of the communication printed in another column, in questioning the right of the so-called University polo team to its self-styled name. The fact that this team has declared itself open to challenge does not constitute it a "varsity team." It is indeed the custom in professional athletics and to some extent also in amateur athletics outside of the college world, for an athletic team to assume the championship of a certain section as long as it is unchallenged and unbeaten, but it is a well-established college precedent that no team should...