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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Best general references: Harvard Graduates' Magazine, III, 30 (Sept., 1894); III, 318 (March, 1895); III, 519 (June, 1895); IV, 119 (Sept., 1895); Walter Camp in Outing, XXVII, 170 (Nov., 1895); A. B. Hart, Studies in American Eduction, No. VI; Caspar Whitney in Harper's Weekly, XXXIX, 2023 (Sept. 28, 1895), 2026 (Oct. 19, 1895); Harvard Crimson, XVI (1889), and XXVIII (1895); Harvard Index...
...III. Permanent arrangements are practicable.- (a) Harvard's triple football alliance with Yale and Princeton.- (b) The triple alliance of Amherst, Williams and Dartmouth.- (c) A dual league is easier than a triple...
Best general references: President Walker in Harvard Graduates' Magazine II, 1-12 (Sept. 1893); Harv. Grad. Mag. III 519 (June, 1895); Nation. LVII, 406 (Nov. 30, 1893); Outing, XXVII...
...Permanent athletic relations are not for the best interests of the student body.- (a) Athletics consume too much time: Prof. Taussig, Grad. Mag. III. P. 300; Pres. Eliot's Report for 1894, pp. 16-18.- (x) Summer training.- (b) Predominance of athletics injurious beyond college.- (1) Exeter troubles: CRIMSON, Dec. 18, 1894.- (c) Lead to bad blood.- (1) Unfairness must be met with unfairness, or grim forbearance, until alliance ends.- (d) Not for the best interests of Harvard's prestige and good-fellowship with other colleges.- (1) Such relations make her dependent upon an alliance.- (2) The University's stand...
...III. Permanent athletic arrangements with Yale are not for the good of the University.- (a) They cause Harvard and Yale to be regarded as the Cambridge and Oxford of America.- (1) Not in accord with Harvard's policy.- (b) By avoiding permanent relations this false notion would be removed-(1) Athletics would become more normal.- (c) Harvard comes to consider Yale as her peculiar rival and "bosom enemy."- (1) Less interest in recent Princeton game than in last Yale game, though as great a defeat.- (d) Such arrangements tend unfairly to raise the literary estimate of Yale,- (1) Yale gains...