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Since the beginning of the present school year, when Harvard recorded herself against professionalism and professional trainers in athletics, our sister colleges seem to have redoubled their efforts in the opposite direction. The latest example occurred in the proceedings of the Inter-Collegiate Rowing Association, where a proposition to employ professional coaches was voted down by a large majority. We think that the spirit which favors the introduction of professionalism into college athletics is greatly to be deplored and should be promptly discouraged, as one can easily see to what excesses the custom may be carried. As yet Harvard...
...also by many others who have shown their appreciation of them by their regular attendance. It is much regretted that the course in rhetoric has been so settled for the year that the lectures cannot be continued; for, notwithstanding Prof. Hill's remarks, encouraging all to set aside and employ certain hours in reading and studying the English authors, we fear that by many this will not be done. Owing to the constant pressure of work, one's good resolutions to employ one's time in outside reading are seldom realized, and it is only when urged on by some...
Noah D. Smith, deputy collector of customs of Memphis, Tenn, has absconded. He is $1600 short in his accounts. He has been in the employ of the collector, Gen. W. J. Smith, for six years...
...foot-ball match with Princeton this fall her eleven demonstrated one thing pretty clearly, and that is that the rules adopted at the last inter-collegiate convention to prevent the old so-called "block game" were totally unavailing when put to the test. The game employed by Princeton was entirely justifiable by the rules, and under the circumstances was, without doubt, the very safest and most reasonable method she could employ. Had Harvard been in her place she would have undoubtedly used the same means to hold her advantage. But by this method should an inferior eleven chance by accident...
...society aiming at the introduction of coeducation into Harvard University the charter has been made to state the objects of the organization to be to promote "the education of women with the assistance of the instructors in Harvard University," and for this purpose it empowers the society to "employ teachers, furnish instruction, give aid to deserving students, procure and hold books, suitable apparatus, and lands and buildings for the accommodation of officers, teachers and students," to "perform all acts appropriate to the main purpose of the association," and to transfer "the whole or any part of its funds or property...