Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ball teams to reply to them. These replies we print in another column, and we think they speak for themselves. In this matter, it seems to us that the News has forgotten one of the most important essentials to all editorial writing,-the solid basis of fact, and we doubt very much if that paper represents in any way the managers of the Yale teams in question...
...outlook for '87 is excellent, and the probabilities are that this year's freshman crew will be the best that Columbia has seen for some time. The men who are training are exceedingly well developed and a very promising looking set of young oarsmen, and without a doubt some of them will eventually fill positions in the university eight. The men are training very systematically. After running a mile or two they work half an hour on the weights and row ten minutes on the machines. This has been going on for some time, and the good effects of hard...
...question with respect to athletics that has recently been discussed by college faculties, and which is not yet settled, is whether college organizations should be allowed to play with professional organizations, and also whether they should be allowed to employ professional trainers. There can be but little doubt that no harm need necessarily follow from a contest with a professional team at the proper time and place. Professional teams are under rigid discipline ; and the opportunity for association with the members of a team during a contest, at the worst, is slight. Professional athletes are not ipso facto...
...warranted, unless it is maintained that to go about among and deal with men is to engender corruption; for there is nothing in the competition of athletic sports any more than in other competitions of life that necessarily corrupts the morals. The other two objections, while they have without doubt foundation in individual cases, have not in general been warranted by the practice of college students, either in this country or in England. Whenever a man has been seriously or permanently injured in an athletic contest, it has invariably been traced either to the natural unfitness of the individual...
...many widely differing causes; but we think there is no influence so strongly at work now as the one voiced by Ex-Governor Chamberlain, that while there may be some dispute as to the relative values of earthen branches in a "liberal education," yet there can be no doubt that a knowledge of the works of the most famous English writers, and a fair in sight into the great movements of literature are of the greatest importance to everyone. The wonder is that the present systematic study of English was not made years ago. These seems to be an idea...