Word: objections
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that the Harvard or Princeton faculties have endeavored to suppress athletics at their respective colleges. What they did try to do was to endeavor to draw a line between gentlemen who play base-ball for sport and professionals who make the game a means of earning their livelihood. Their object was to prevent as far as possible the entrance of any of the many objectionable features of professionalism into college sports. Their purpose was a laudable one and they would have succeeded had it not been for the unfortunate action of the Yale faculty, in refusing, as they...
...were unquestionably authorized in electing directors from the lower classes. The clear statement of the association of the use the income received from the small fee charged would be put to shows that there is nothing extortionate in their actions, and we feel sure that no tennis player will object to paying fifty cents, when, by the new arrangement, he pays for the marking of his court, whether or not it was marked before the new rules were passed, less than half the amount charged heretofore, besides having the privilege of using any court when unoccupied by its holders...
...consideration, they are strong enough, whether taken separately or together, to justify the abandonment of the plan as first proposed of building a fence. The number of students who stay outside to see a game is very small, and the few who do so would not, in our opinion, object strongly to paying the regular price of admission, which is by no means exorbitant...
...advantages of the elective system as deduced from both theory and practice, says the New York Times, may be briefly summarized as follows: To the man whose object is general raining, who wants an education only that he may enjoy its broadening influences, the elective system opposes no obstacle; the required system is, if efficiently carried out, equally valuable to this class, but it is not more so. But to that much larger class who want an education to train them for some special calling, or who have a special fondness for some one line of study, the elective system...
...Latin department, the old Latin 2 will be dropped and a new course substituted which, with Latin 5, a course that can be taken two years, will correspond to Greek 3, its object being to give facility in reading Latin. Latin 11, the course in colloquial Latin, disappears, its place being taken by the second composition course, Latin 7, in which speaking and writing Latin will be taught. Prof. Allen will have a new course, in place of his course on the Roman Drama, on the critical study of Ovid. In Greek and Latin there will be no change. Prof...