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...increase the time required from crew men, especially from our best 'Varsity men, whom it is hard enough to keep at work anyway, and who would be the only ones qualified to coach. Gentlemen, require us to coach ourselves, and you add to what is already the most objectionable feature of college rowing. You make it impossible for crew men to do as well in their studies, and so you prepare the way for the eventual abolition of rowing. If you object to Mr. Bancroft, gentlemen, say so, and prove your accusations. Show that the whole thing...
...second objection covers the first, we can drop Mr. Bancroft's name from the discussion, and consider the advisability of retaining a paid coach. The general explanation offered by the Committee for their course of action, is as follows. Athletics at Harvard must be freed from all objectionable features. The onward march toward professionalism is to be stopped, and a step backwards taken. In a word, athletics in all departments are to be restored to their pristine purity, safety, and cheapness. The students must dispense entirely with all professional service, and all "professional" spirit in their athletic sports. This decision...
2. A coach, like Mr. Bancroft, a college graduate, never interested in boating outside of college, is not a professional according to the definition of the word as accepted by the Athletic Committee. Therefore, any objection to a man like Mr. Bancroft on the ground that he is a professional...
The effort to have the hearing before the Committee on Athletics postponed having proved fruitless, it is timely to put in a plea for the continuance of foot ball in the future. It seems to us that foot ball is too valuable a game to be discontinued and that, it...
The position that the college has taken is due 8 to its patchwork condition. We are in a period of change. But the college takes no attitude so foolish as that on the prayer question. Here it is at once conceded that attendance at chapel ought to be voluntary, and...