Word: curtail
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...away with intercollegiate athletics, or curtail them so that it is no longer possible to meet our dearest rivals, and forward passes, sacrifice hits, and strikeouts would no longer be talked about. But would questions of political economy or philosophy be more prominent? We are convinced that they would...
Before passing an opinion on this action it is only fair to say that the Athletic Committee is in as hard a position as a body of men could well be. Confronted on the one side by two Faculty recommendations "to curtail largely the number of intercollegiate contests," and on the other by an undergraduate sentiment violently opposed to such an action, the Committee has felt called upon to act, and has therefore taken the first step in yielding to the stronger of the two opinions. But, if there is to be a concession it is apparently coming...
From the very first the CRIMSON opposed any proposition to curtail the number of intercollegiate contests, and our opinion is in no wise altered. We have no faith in the necessity for curtailment or restriction of any kind, not to mention an absolute and unqualified abolishing of intercollegiate contests in all the winter sports. Throughout the year we have taken up in detail the many and varied arguments in favor of intercollegiate sport: its power in holding the undergraduate community together, its good effects upon the participants both morally and physically, its power as an outlet for the energy that...
...studies the CRIMSON has always maintained. And yet, as our contributor argues this morning, interference with studies is far greater than it should be, simply because the athletes are abusing their privileges and hurting the very cause which they all have at heart. There is no necessity to curtail schedules, no necessity to deplore the natural tendency of mankind to test the strength and skill of one body of men against another; but there is a necessity to impress upon the athletes that their first duty is to their studies, and that participation in a hard athletic season...
This week's Bulletin, which appeared yesterday, contains a communication signed "X", which puts the vote of the Faculty to curtail intercollegiate athletics squarely up to the Corporation and Athletic Committee. It advocates immediate action, on the grounds that if the other colleges will not stand by Harvard, it is right for Harvard to support her principles alone. This, says the communication, has been done successfully in educational matters. It proposes a practical test of the proposition, claiming that "if the experiment leaves us worse off than we are, there will be profit in that demonstration," and, further, asserts that...