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...measure is "an insult to the well-behaved members of the association" any more, indeed, than than the placing of proctors in the dormitories is an insult to the well-behaved men who live in them. If the action creates a strong enough sentiment against ungentlemanly conduct to frown it down in the future, it will at least have accomplished its purpose...
...most earnestly hope that students will consider the matter seriously. If the great proportion of students resolve to frown upon any cheering, we believe that incipient demonstrations will be checked...
...business is this for college men? How much strength of character, how much manliness, does such action show? None. Is it up to the standard of American college life? Certainly not. The students themselves, those who have any appreciation of the dignity of Harvard life should unite to frown such conduct as this out of existence. The man who forgets his responsibility as a gentleman should be shown by a unanimous public voice that though he may be among us here, he is distinctly out of harmony with the student life and that if he wishes recognition for his cleverness...
...president speaks of the "trickery condoned by a public opinion which demands victory." This is certainly not a prevalent abuse; if it exists at all it is among a very small element in our college world. The spirit of fairness and honor, of which most colleges boast, would soon frown down any "trickery"; and, if that potent factor in a college world-public opinion-frowns upon "trickery," how can it exist? In spite of all this, however, we believe with President Eliot that there is much that is rotten in our athletic system, and we call upon public opinion...
...athletics and our moral tone serious evil and it is right that an outcry should be made against it. Men will make wagers until doomsday, it may be urged, but still when we appreciate that the custom is injuring our athletic career we are culpable if we do not frown upon it. For what consequence is our little excitement in comparison with the cause of an honorable course on the athletic field? We believe with Mr. Wendell on this subject as we did on the former, this a reform by the students, the other a recognition by the faculty, that...