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...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...
...other athletic sport in which many more than nine men at a time can be engaged. In foot-ball there are eleven, in lacrosse twelve, and in rowing, usually eight; but we do not see how any of these games are to be criticised because they do not employ more men. It would be highly undesirable for many reasons that in any sport many more than about this number should compete at one time. Here, at Harvard, it is true that only two regularly organized nines are in training; a sufficient cause for this, we think, is the lack...
...college nine or crew should not have a right to get themselves coached by such a man. The objection mentioned in the resolution is that the crew or nine with a professional coach would have an advantage over crews and nines having no coach; that, therefore, professionals would be employed, if at all, university, and that this would tend to assimilate the "tone" of undergraduates with that of professionals, whose character is often low and whose motive is mainly mercenary. But why? Coaching by professionals cannot of itself make the motive of undergraduates mercenary, and nothing can prevent the motive...
...understand that both these statements are denied by members of the committee, who assert that the committee was actuated by sincere motives as expressed in Prof. Norton's letter in prohibiting the Yale game, and that no official assurance has been given the nine of permission to employ a professional trainer in the contingency named, although individual members of the committee may be in favor of such action in that case...
...with individual athletic culture so with inter-collegiate contests; the student holds opinions about them differing diametrically from those of the faculty. He wishes to employ professional trainers; to arrange trial contests with the most formidable opponents, amateur or professional; to bring antagonists from afar; and to provide the necessary funds by holding the contest in cities remote and inconvenient, but whose residents are more liberal with gate-money than would be the home assemblies. He wishes to make these contests the event of the college year, and to subordinate to them study and examinations-anything and everything. He wishes...