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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...varsity being called out to play in both the Harvard and the Princeton games. Last year he was tackle on the Yale team and played a fine game against Cowan in the Princeton game. He was considered one of the best men in the rush-line and at the end of the season was elected captain for this year. When Gill decided to come back, however, he resigned in his favor. He is a strong player, a good leader, and will doubtless bring out a strong team for Yale next season...
...carefully underdrained and is composed of pin gravel covered to a depth of nine inches with cinders. The track is so arranged that the finish of the races will be opposite the grand stand which is also just back of the catcher's position in base ball. The upper end of the field has been cut down so that there is little grade, and everything has been done to give the men the best possible chance for athletic practice and contests...
...instructors feel certain that the work done in it is much better than that done in the old building. As for athletics, the best for the college are those that are most general. Intercollegiate athletics are a good thing, but must be regarded as a means to an end. There is a great need of reform in training. There is no reason, for example, why a diet on which men have flourished all their lives should be thrown away, and a disagreeable one substituted...
...improvement, therefore, which the writer of the letter most desires to see in our college is an improvement in the department or instruction, and this improvement must come through a better knowledge and application of the laws of mental development. To which end he thinks that there should be established schools of Pedagogy in our universities...
...resolution, however, undoes everything the first one accomplishes. The first resolution is a step towards purity in college athletics, the second looks as though Harvard had eagerly seized an opportunity of forming a dual league with Yale; it seems as though purity in athletics is not the only desired end. Again, the Advocate thinks that Harvard should have withdrawn from all the leagues, and not from the football league only. If Harvard had withdrawn from all leagues her position would not be equivocal, and her action would have been more consistent. Professionalism should not be given a chance to appear...