Word: objectionables
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Another evil in athletics, which is the result of competition, is said to be unequal development produced by training for specialities. In answer to this we need only look at the prominent athletes in the different branches. They are almost without exception healthy, and well developed men. Athletes are beginning...
The recent conference of Republicans who favor Civil Service Reform, which was held in New York a few days ago, is another proof of the expediency of doing something to stir up the students on this most important subject. This meeting was called by young men, and was managed by...
The first resolution is that any "director or instructor in physical exercises or athletic sports" must be appointed by the college and his name announced in the catalogue. There is no objection to this resolution apparently, and we only mention it here, because it emphasizes the fact that the function...
The second resolution, of course, raises the question what it a "professional," as to which, as many of our readers know, there is a vast body of learning in existence, but as yet no common agreement. Assuming that the word is here used roughly to de note any one who...
Dartmouth College through its faculty has refused to ratify the athletic resolutions. This lessens by one the number from which the necessary five must come to make them binding. Now that the other colleges are making up their minds and taking enough interest in the matter to act, it looks...