Word: interred
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...correspondent of the Yale Record argues forcibly in favor of inter-collegiate athletic games between Yale and Harvard, "at which the winners in Yale's games will meet Harvard's champions. This meeting would at once raise track athletics to the prominence which they deserve, and the Harvard-Yale athletic games would rank with the Harvard ball game and the Princeton foot-ball match. The expenses of the meeting would be more than covered by the gate-money, and the experiment would involve no financial danger. The question at least deserves a thorough discussion in both the papers...
Since the beginning of the present school year, when Harvard recorded herself against professionalism and professional trainers in athletics, our sister colleges seem to have redoubled their efforts in the opposite direction. The latest example occurred in the proceedings of the Inter-Collegiate Rowing Association, where a proposition to employ professional coaches was voted down by a large majority. We think that the spirit which favors the introduction of professionalism into college athletics is greatly to be deplored and should be promptly discouraged, as one can easily see to what excesses the custom may be carried. As yet Harvard...
...Yale Record pleasantly commends the Inter-Collegiate Press Association. Yale, we hope, will soon be represented in the association...
Students of Amherst College emphatically deny the rumor that their faculty has prohibited them from inter-collegiate contests...
Yale and Harvard have the right, of course, to found an inter-collegiate custom, and after a short time abandon it to better and stronger oarsmen, but they have no right, in view of this fact, to claim to be the representative rowing colleges while at the same time confining their races to meetings with each other. - [Philadelphia Times...