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...such acts be occasional and incidental, or habitual." President Eliot acquits both the public and the average player of any liking for these football evils. "The average college players would much rather play fair than foul. The Players have not devised or enjoyed the stupid methods of training which impair the physical condition of most of them before the important games take place." President Eliot concludes his discussion of football with these words: "On the question, whether or not football victories do, as a matter of fact, contribute to the growth and regulation of a college or university, there...
...desire to assume all responsibility for the statement made before the football game with Yale that I had never received money which would in any way impair my standing as an amateur in college sports...
...rapid stroke had been condemned so much before 1876 that the change was thoroughly approved; and it is worthy of note that those who had had the experience of both distances reached conclusions directly opposite to the views now advanced by Mr. Storrow. Nothing has occurred since to impair the soundness of the reasons which induced the adoption in 1876 of four miles as the distance. The longer race is a better test of the rowing ability of the crews, for the longer the race the more skill in rowing, and especially in crew rowing, counts, while mere individual strength...
...present system is faulty because it puts too great a burden upon the judges. To ask a board of judges to listen to forty-seven speeches of five minutes each without any recess or interruption is putting a physical strain upon them which is likely to impair their judgment. The physical strain in the last trial was so great that one of the judges was unable to remain until all the men had spoken, giving his judgment only on the men whom he had heard. Those who have acted as judges are agreed that the best results cannot be expected...
...joint committee on Monday's parade earnestly urge every college man to join in the General Republican Sound Money Demonstration next Friday evening. Such a cooperation will in no way impair the success of the students' parade the night before election when we as a student body solely can give full expression of our enthusiastic support of sound financial principles. It is to the interest of every college man to see that in this general demonstration of Friday evening, with its great mass of outside clubs estimated at five or six thousand men, that the college division is at least...