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...Whereas, We do not admit that evils have crept into athletics through the employment of professionals...
...Confederate entrenchments on the Warwick line near York-town, only to find that when everything was in readiness to open fire, the enemy had evacuated their position. A slow pursuit was at once begun, the rate of advance averaging two miles a day. Slowly the army of the Potomac crept forward until it assumed a position astride the Chickahominy river, which greatly embarrassed its operations. Ordinarily it is not deemed bad policy to have a river dividing an army. But the Chickahominy is an exceptional stream from the fact that its bottom is but little lower than its banks...
...practice of playing match games in large cities for the sake of gate money has crept into college sports within the past few years. The evils resulting are many: it leads to the introduction of features which draw crowds, independently of the merit of the game and the spirit of fair play; it induces men to put themselves in the hands of speculators; it cultivates a passion for excitement in players and spectators which make ordinary games seem tame, thus depriving the great majority of college students of a motive for physical exertion. Therefore...
...when the full control of the base-ball interests are in the hands of the undergraduates, they fail to give the nine that enthusiastic support which alone will induce men to train, and do not take interest enough in its success to correct any abuses which may have crept into the management, it is hardly probable that taking the contest out of their hands will cause any great wave of enthusiastic interest in the fate of the nine to sweep over the college. The secret of our success in those branches of athletics where we have been successful-base-ball...
...Academie de la Langue Francaise des Etats Unis" has been organized in Boston to protect the purity of the French language and the work of good teachers of French. The teachers who have formed the organization have decided to exert their best endeavors to check the abuses which have crept into the teaching of French, which has of late often been intrusted to individuals of foreign nationalities who do not scruple to represent themselves as professors of a language whose very rudiments are unknown to them...