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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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW YORK POST ON ATHLETIC REGULATIONS. | 2/28/1884 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW YORK POST ON ATHLETIC REGULATIONS. | 2/28/1884 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/28/1884 | See Source »

The main and radical objection I have to the resolutions is not to the provisions of the resolutions, but to the existence of any resolutions. In trying to force these resolutions on the students, the faculty of Harvard College have adopted a policy directly contrary to the one that has...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ATHLETIC QUESTION. | 2/22/1884 | See Source »

...ball-playing a business? It might be well for the faculty to turn its attention a little more closely to some other aspects of the moral training of Harvard College and let such slight matters as professionalism take care of themselves. The third resolution is one of the most objectionable. It reads...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ATHLETIC QUESTION. | 2/22/1884 | See Source »

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