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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...labors of the Harvard athletic committee and of President Eliot in behalf of such cooperation at last have begun to bear fruit in the regulations already adopted by the Harvard faculty, and soon very probably to be adopted by the four other colleges necessary to give them effect. There now seems little doubt therefore that the experiment of the new system will be tried, and that Harvard is to be among those who first will feel its effects...
...directly anti-professional and express the extreme views of the Harvard faculty on this question. This is an aspect that does not require particular discussion here. In form the resolutions include well enough a complete prohibition of "professionalism" from college athletics. In this respect as in others their effect will depend entirely upon the interpretation given to them and to the degree of strictness or of laxity with which they are enforced. We do not see that there is any common tribunal in this matter, but that every college is left to give its own rendering to the rules...
...Providence, R. I., the seat of Brown University, the resolutions adopted at the recent conference of college committees in New York to be submitted for approval or rejection to the several faculties interested, have been made public. It is of course too early to speculate upon their effect until it is seen how many colleges will finally adopt them. The various provisions contained in them were in general not unexpected, in view of the course of the recent agitation of the matter in the different colleges and in the public press. We reserve any criticism of the measures in detail...
...thing between running a road through the principal streets of the two cities and simply connecting them by one line. As to the danger to real estate, a road throwing Mr. Auburn and Green streets to main street and thence over the bridge to Boston would have no serious effect upon the value of the land. And thus would be avoided that discomfort which is incurred from running a road through the crowded streets of a city. We look at the proposed road from an economical standpoint and in it we recognize not only the source of great convenience...
With the two other "reforms" suggested, I have no fault to find, but, on the contrary, believe they might have the desired effect of improving our ranking system...