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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...kindred matter. In the evening there will be a dinner given to the Pennsylvania cricketers. This dinner should be largely attended by the college men; nor must we let any ill-feeling, owing to the treatment received by the nine at Philadelphia, interfere with the cordial relations which have existed and must always continue to exist between Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania...
...past to all city schools has been the fact that the students had not such opportunities for out-door sports and recreations as the members of the large boarding schools and academies. It is, of course, in the nature of things that this comparative disadvantage will always exist, but it can be greatly lessened if a stronger interest in foot-ball and base-ball games springs up among the city schools. Suitable practice grounds will then have to be obtained where all the students can exercise during the afternoons. Rivalry and competition are always beneficial when not carried to excess...
...records. Yet, notwithstanding the intense rivalry, the jubilation that follows victory and the deep chagrin that follows defeat, the relations between Harvard and Yale continue always cordial. There is behind the firm resolution to win, a feeling of mutual respect and hearty admiration that we think could hardly exist were not the colleges drawn together as they now are. The athletic life which every-where engages lively interest, and which affords endless opportunity for competition, comes surely to the surface, while the intellectual life in which competition is uncertain and unsatisfactory sinks beneath, but still exerts a far reaching...
...daily papers to the effect that "no students will hereafter be received as candidates for the certificates of the high or preparatory school known as 'the School of Mechanic Arts' in this institute." General F. A. Walker says the school never had an endowment, and had been able to exist only by reason of the high rates of tuition...
...Whereas, In the opinion of this club to prohibit undergraduates from taking part in intercollegiate athletics would not tend to correct the alleged abuses, but would be an unwise step, detrimental to the best interests of the undergraduates and the college; and that such abuses, if they exist, are not likely to be cured simply by confining the contests to the New England States...