Word: kinds
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...said that the excitement attendant on these sports distracts from study. it is true that the contests do furnish excitement for the students, but it is excitement of a healthy kind. Athletic sports do not divert so many from study as the theatre and billiards. Banish athletics, and you increase the attendance at the theatres and the saloons, where the temptations are greater, and the excitements less healthy than those of the ball-field and boatrace...
...evils already commented on are general. There are other so-called evils which are special-some peculiar to one kind of athletics, but not belonging to the others. One of these, charged against base-ball, is that the game brings the students into contact with "professionals." Whatever may be the extent of the evil in other colleges, at Yale it has not proved to be so great as to call for faculty interference, or even to excite apprehension. All the evils, real or imaginary, connected with ball playing, are reduced to a minimum when the students meet "professionals." They meet...
...professionalism" in athletics includes more than playing with professional nines. The employment of professional "trainers" in preparing students for contests is, for some, the chief evil. Such trainers are looked upon as bad companions for our young men. It is quite natural that students, when taking lessons of any kind, should prefer the best masters. Unfortunately, the best masters are not always the best men. That the pupils are, therefore, always led into bad courses by the example of their instructors does not follow. There is enough good sense in college students generally to dissociate good instruction from faults...
...sophomores followed a freshman with a banger up Chapel street, but the sophomores were small and the freshman was large. A freshman and a banger beat two of a kind. [Yale Courant...
...faculty of a college is justified in attempting to regulate the out door sports of its students is a difficult question to decide. On the whole, it seems as if the Harvard faculty, with the most laudable intentions, had tried to do too much. Castiron rules to cover every kind of sport, with members of the faculty authorized to superintend all inter-collegiate contests, convey the impression that the students must be a very headstrong and indiscreet set of young men to need such careful watching. A simple set of rules providing that professional athletes shall not be employed...