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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale a series of class tennis tournaments will be held this week. A college tournament will follow...
...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 men of depraved natures. They...
EDITORS HERALD-CRIMSON:- It is to be regretted, that the sophomore crew found it necessary to follow the bad example of the seniors of rowing twice a day. In self defence, the junior and freshmen crews will soon be forced to do likewise, and thus a foolish custom will be established. Rowing men will be obliged to neglect all studies during a month before the class races. Heretofore, rowing but once a day, it has been found more difficult for an oarsman to keep his place in his class than in his boat. When two rows a pay are taken...
Within the last year a pleasant custom has sprung up at Yale, which Harvard might do well to follow. We refer to the practice of organizing state clubs among the undergraduates. There are at present three of these clubs in successful operation at Yale, one composed of students from the state of Minnesota, another from Ohio, and a third from California. They have been founded for the purpose of bringing into pleasant social relations members of the different classes who come from the same state, so that when the four years are completed and the students have returned to their...
...general course of men who have the profession of journalism in view. Even to those who had no thought of writing for a livelihood, the instruction of such a department would be most valuable for the education of a budding statesman, or of a budding economist, would naturally follow to a large degree the same line of thought as a journalist. It is only of late years that political economy or even the literature of our own language have taken their present prominence, and so it is with a good deal of hope that we look forward in expectation...