Word: objections
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Believing that the management of athletics, which are a means of recreation, and form no part of the regular college curriculum, belongs principally to the students, we object to the appointment by the college authorities of instructors in athletics, without giving the students a voice in such appointment. For the appointment of unsatisfactory instructors might lead to the seeking, on the part of individuals, of outside instruction, thus tending to defeat the general purpose of the resolutions against professionalism...
...regard to this rule, we must object strongly to a limitation, which, if enforced, would deprive our crew of the right of rowing an amateur race with such crews as that of the Union Boat Club of Boston, or the Narragansetts: which would deprive our foot-ball eleven of the privilege of playing games with amateur elevens from Canada, or even with a picked eleven composed of graduates from this college; our base-ball nine from playing with the Beacons, (with whom an annual series has been played in past years), our cricket eleven from playing with the amateur elevens...
...made this year, but during the coming summer some radical changes in the system of drainage should be effected so that the season of 1884-5 may see the yard in a little better condition after any rain or thaw. This subject is a wearisome one but the desired object can only be obtained by showing the authorities how much the students object to these too frequent wettings...
...Francis A. Palfry on "Gaines Mill and the Peninsular Campaign." The purpose which McClellan had in view when he entered upon the disastrous campaign of the Peninsular was the crushing of the Confederate forces massed in front of Richmond, and the ultimate capture of the city. To accomplish this object, he had at his disposal troops to the number of a hundred thousand. To oppose him, Johnson, and afterward Lee, had about eighty thousand men. These estimates include all three branches of the service, and are approximately correct. McClellan had taken months to organize and discipline...
...first one, in reference to the appointment of a director of physical training, has no especial fault, other than its uselessness. We have no objection to the printing of a dozen names, more or less, in the college catalogue. In regard to the second resolution, excluding professional trainers, student opinion is divided. No one objects to the general theory that professionalism should be excluded from our athletics. But a great many do object to the methods which have been adopted to exclude that professionalism. The faculty certainly would not wish us to have amateur teachers in mathematics or physics...