Word: fide
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...faculty of Johns Hopkins has passed a stringent rule requiring the captains of athletic teams to hand in the names of the candidates, and any one who is not found to be a bona fide student in good standing will not be permitted to play...
RULE II. BONA FIDE STUDENTS.No one shall be allowed to represent Harvard University, in any public contest, either individually or as a member of team, unless he is, or intends to be throughout a college year, a bona fide member of the University, taking a full year's work...
These rules seem fully to cover the requirements. They eliminate all kinds of professionalism, exclude all but bona fide students in good standing, and minimize the chance of coming to Harvard with athletics as the primary purpose. By them six 'varsity men who are still in college and would care to go into athletics, are excluded. They are Frothingham, Upton, Abbott, Sullivan, of the nine; Fearing, of the crew and Mott Haven team; Lewis, of the eleven. Frothingham, Upton, and Fearing have been on Harvard teams four years. Abbott played on the Dartmouth nine, Sullivan and Lewis came from Amherst...
...from Pennylvania. This challenge was received the first of the year, but negotiations then going on with Princeton prevented Harvard from accepting it until the last of April. The important provisions of the final agreement concerning the composition of the teams, settle the disputed questions as to amateurs, bona fide students, the time limit, and the announcement of names of players, in the most satisfactory manner possible; and it is interesting to notice that the rules on the same subjects which Yale recently allowed to be submitted to the Intercollegiate Association were essentially the same as those agreed...
...this country, and expected that Pennsylvania and Princeton and Harvard universities would be content to be represented by Pennsylvania and Princeton and Harvard colleges. It was evident also that the undegraduate rule meant a curtailment of the possibilities of amateur sport, and that such curtailment was unnecessary. A bona fide student-one doing some real work with some definite degree as his object-is to be welcomed, whether from college or professional school. Amateur sport wants only men above reproach, but it wants all these attainable...