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...call particular attention to the new rule of the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports which will hereafter debar from all public athletic contests those men who neglect to be examined by the director of the gymnasium. There has been no stated punishment attending the breaking of this rule heretofore. Men went through the prescribed process because they knew the rule, and because of a "wholesome uncertainty" as to what would happen if they overlooked the rule. It is now a serious thing and must be strictly obeyed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/4/1891 | See Source »

...religious societies the author speaks of the Young Men's Christian Association, the St. Paul's Society and the Total Abstinence League. He comments on the fact that to be interested in religious work does not as one might judge from the malice of the daily press, debar a man from prominence in athletic life. Very rarely has Harvard sent a Mott Haven to New York that has not included among its prize winners active religious men. "The president of the Athletic Association during the past year was also president of the St. Paul's Society. In social life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Harvard's Better Self." | 12/6/1890 | See Source »

Andover claims that McCarthy and White of the Exeter nine have violated the rules 3 and 4 of the agreement which the faculties have adopted. These rules debar men who have received compensation for athletic work, and those who enter school after the first week of the winter term...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 6/10/1890 | See Source »

...Yale University Glee Club has announce the formation of a second club and has resolved to debar all members of the Apollo Club unless they leave the latter before March. This will result in the disbandment of the Apollo Club, which has given a number of successful concerts during the past winter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 2/28/1889 | See Source »

...should become prize scholarships to be fought over by the competitors on a petty rank list? Is it conducive to the development of manhood and of scholarship for its own sake that students must become the slaves of annual marks and that the difference of one per cent should debar them from obtaining needed assistance at one of the most trying periods of their lives...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Abuse of Competition at Harvard. | 4/17/1888 | See Source »

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