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...share of importance in a question which touches them more nearly than any one else. We further more believe that this committee will do its best to introducer forms greatly needed in our whole athletic system. This the committee can do by exchanging secrecy for openness, by rescinding the edict against professionalism, and by letting the college know who the real coaches and trainers are. Thus they need not force hypocrisy on themselves as well as the college...
...Mikado of Japan has issued an edict against the game of base-ball...
...field '87 did good work while '89 played a loose game. '89 was severely handicapped by the edict of Wiliard, which forbids its regular pitcher to enter the box. With an entirely new battery, '89 did well to keep its opponents down to fifteen hits...
...Harvard is at a great disadvantage in base-ball - first, owing to the late coming of spring here, when compared with the country near New York, and, secondly, in the edict of the faculty forbidding contests with professionals, an advantage which our friends in the College League take good care to make the most of. To counterbalance these fundamental drawbacks, Harvard has a great work before her, and if she gains her aim now, higher honor will be awarded her energy and perseverance...
...begins. We are henceforth to have a home of our own. The government of Greece has shown such warm interest in our enterprise, that a valuable piece of land on Mount Lycabettus, containing about an acre an a half, has been granted to the School by a royal edict, issued July...