Word: killingly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...which are connected with athletic affairs, the committee are of the opinion that intercollegiate contests stimulate athletics, stimulate general exercise, and thus favorably affect the health and moral tone of the university." With such evidence in favor of intercollegiate contests, it would seem to us exceedingly bad policy to kill them as President Eliot's rules inevitably would. For without minor games outside of the college the university teams could not obtain sufficient practice to be any match for Yale teams, and the "one, two, or three intercollegiate contests" would become a mere farce. Moreover it would greatly decrease...