Word: harvard
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...other way, direct or indirect, have I received any pecuniary assistance from any association or individual for taking part in athletics at Harvard College. Nor has any such assistance been offered...
...Prof. J. B. AMES, "Harvard Law School, "Cambridge, Mass...
...Dean and the other from Mr. Spalding. We certainly think it undesirable that gentlemen should engage in sports on such terms; butin view of the fact that members of this exhibition baseball team came also from Yale and Princeton, we see no ground for special condemnation of the Harvard players...
...have not contented ourselves with an investigation of the charges presented by the officers of the Princeton Association, but have carried our inquiries further. We can discover no trace of the payment, or offer, of money to any person to play upon the Harvard teams this year. Employment has in a case or two been secured for men of moderate means by those interested in them. And there was in 1888-89 the instance, referred to above, in which an athletic man, not then a member of any team, borrowed a sum of money for college expenses from a fellow...
Rumors of irregularities in previous years have reached us, and while we have not been able to verify them, we cannot assert that Harvard has in the past been more free from this difficulty than her sister colleges. And even this year it is possible that vague and general promises of financial aid or advantage have been made by irresponsible persons; but the students and graduates, the officers of the athletic associations, and this Committee, all decidedly condemn any such offers, by whomever made...