Word: objectionable
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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The main objection to football, President Eliot says, lies against its moral quality: "The game is played under established and recognized rules; but the uniform enforcement of these rules is impossible, and violations of the rules are in many respects highly profitable toward victory. Thus coaching from the side-lines...
The substance of one statement in this letter was that the track management had neglected to change the hours of practice on the afternoons on which basketball games were scheduled. After a short talk with the basketball manager the matter was cleared up. He now understands that owing to several...
The Senior elections yesterday are deserving of comment in view of the very significant fact that, notwithstanding the unprecedented avalanche of nominations by petition, the men elected were in every case those originally nominated by the committee. This conclusively proves that the deliberations of a committee are much more likely...
It may be objected that discontinuance of subscriptions would leave no way of choosing managers. This objection is a superficial one, however, for the present system is not in practice either efficient or fairly competitive. Under the proposed plan, managers could be elected by the classes, or appointed by the...
One great objection to our athletics at the present time is this demoralization of the non-athletic masses, who often treat the stranger within our gates not only as a stranger, but, in the good old classical sense, as an enemy too.