Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...athletic conference at which a number of eastern colleges will be represented soon to be held at Providence, is a welcome sign of the growth of a healthy movement toward the correction of athletic evils. The most ardent partisan of intercollegiate sport is forced to admit that under present conditions, abuses do exist, and that they are abuses very difficult to eradicate. The intensity of public interest, and the resulting fierceness of competition form an influence in favor of excess which is almost irresistible...
Harvard's delegates to the committee for the conference on athletics to be held at Providence by the Eastern universities are to be: Professor I. N. Hollis, F. W. Moore '93, E. G. Burgess '98. The conference will be held at the invitation of Brown University, and Pennsylvania, Columbia, Cornell, and probably Yale and Princeton will send delegates. The conference, as has already been stated, will have no binding effect on the universities represented, but the opinions expressed and the general conclusions reached will, it is hoped, react in favor of a uniformity of regulations governing college athletics...
...position to know. Nevertheless it is extremely doubtful whether circumstances do not produce a biased selection of candidates not in the least contemplated. The candidates for a Freshman team who have made a name for themselves as athletes in the interscholastic league or at some Eastern preparatory schools, will attract the eye of the coach more naturally than an equally good man whose capabilities are unknown...
...invitation of Brown University a meeting of representatives of the leading eastern universities will soon be held in Providence to consider the various phases of sport in their relation to colleges. The conference will have no binding effect upon the universities represented, but the opinions expressed and the general conclusions reached will, it is hoped, react in favor of a uniformity of regulations governing college athletics in the East. Summer baseball is understood to be one of the questions which will be considered...
Pennsylvania, Cornell and Columbia athletic teams have given assurances that they will compete at the open indoor athletic meeting of the B. A. A. on Feb. 5. Princeton is now the only large eastern college that will not be able to compete...