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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...eighth resolution seems' necessary if the other resolutions are to be carried out; but such are the objections to the others as a whole that we consider it our duty to express our emphatic protest against their adoption by the Harvard faculty as ill-timed, inexpedient and unjust...
...absolutely necessary to me that the faculty should fully understand the position taken by the students in regard to the matter of the new athletic regulations, and as the college papers have as yet failed to present that position as I conceive it to be, I shall endeavor to express what appears to me to be the student feeling. If I am mistaken in my interpretation of that sentiment, I do not doubt that I will soon be corrected through your columns. In the first place, I should like to have it understood that we do not question the good...
...same mind will obtain a more superficial knowledge when directed to many diverse subjects than when concentrated upon one only. It was this distinction between two equally intellectual men, employing their power, the one in a single direction, and the other in many different directions, that I meant to express by specialist and superficialist. Superficiality as only comparative, as what is profound to the uneducated man may seem entirely superficial to the specialist upon that subject. Your correspondent has certainly been very unfortunate in his experience with the "specialists of college," since he professes to have found them equally superficial...
...resolutions can be considered under three general heads: In the first place, so far as they are 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...
...prominent excuse offered by Harvard for not rowing Pennsylvania was the expense of preparing a crew, or, at least, of sending one, if only to the Charles River; so it strikes us a trifle inconsistent to talk about sending a second eight. They might, however, be sent on by express. [University of Pennsylvania Magazine...