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...letter, which we beg leave to address to you, states the result of our investigations; and explains the present attitude of Harvard students towards Intercollegiate athletic contests. Since the public has been led to believe in the existence of "evidence" too damaging for publication, affecting the character of "a number of the Harvard team"; and since the attitude of the Harvard students has been seriously misunderstood and misrepresented, you will not regard us as discourteous if we give the public full opportunity to compare the evidence with the facts...
...Harvard University are conferred by special votes of a Faculty or of the Academic Council, and confirmed by the Corporation; and that in both bodies the only grounds of bestowal are good scholarship and need. It should perhaps be added, in specific answer to the allegation that "a number of the Harvard Eleven are at present beneficiaries of the college funds," that only one member of the Harvard team is the recipient of beneficiary aid from the college. He holds one of the eighty-nine grants of the "Price Greenleaf Aid" for the current year, the only form of undergraduate...
...further asserted that a number of the Harvard Eleven were offered pecuniary inducements to enter college to play football. "Evidence" is presented in support of this assertion. This "evidence" consists of two letters, two extracts from letters, one of which was not addressed to the officers of the Princeton Association but appeared in the public press, a reference to a fifth letter which is not produced, and finally reference to the trip to England made last summer by a baseball team consisting of seven collegians under the charge of J. W. Spalding of New York...
...regret that Mr. Ammerman has not seen fit to be more explicit. It seems likely that Mr. Ammerman has been imposed upon. It is extremely improbable that any "Harvard man" would have had the temerity to offer him a scholarship in the Law School. These scholarships-eight in number-are assigned in October, and are given only to those who have been a year in residence and have passed with credit the annual examinations in June preceding...
...Gregory recently visited the arid lones west of the Papas river. At present work is being rapidly pursued in the construction of a very large canal, and it is expected that this part of the arid region will soon be a most fertile land. A large number of the the smaller rivers cross this territory. The frost is never severe; the mean temperature is 620, and the summers are long and hot. The soil of the arid region is rich, and the opportunities for irrigation are great. The population of the United States is rapidly increasing, and the rising generation...