Word: contesting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...professional, and the knowledge thus acquired is far more lasting and convincing than faculty decrees, rules or regulations." "As all colleges are not likely to agree as to the wisdom of these resolutions," he continues concerning the three-mile rule, "this one looks like an attempt against inter-collegiate contests. Such a blow would weaken the whole college system of physical education. It is the inter-collegiate contest that is the incentive which makes discipline and training endurable to the youth who hates restraint and loves his freedom...
...That no professional athlete, oarsman, or hall-player shall be employed, either for instruction or practice, in preparation for any intercollegiate contest...
...That no student shall be allowed to take part in any intercollegiate contest as a member of any club, team, or crew for more than four years...
...will not train hard for the mere interest in the sport. There must be something to win, whether glory, or a medal, or a record, or all combined. And it is a mistake to suppose that it is only those that have been successful enough to enter the contest that have been benefited. The eight men who train for our greatest competitive event-the Yale race-are the ones who advance our boating interests the most throughout college in general. Do away with this Yale race, and our class races would feel the effect materially, and might possibly...
...shall take official cognizance of association's actions. In the general routine there will be but little difference from the present. The inter-collegiate associations will still meet and adopt rules, but the same must be presented to the faculties before they can be played under. When a contest is to occur between two colleges, the advisory members of the faculty of each will see that everything has been done satisfactorily, and, in a case of disagreement, the whole intercollegiate advisory of conference board will be called upon to decide. Now, on the whole, while acknowledging it is a radical...