Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...deem fit. The members of this committee were all very strongly of the opinion that athletics are essential to the highest welfare of the students; but, at the same time, they saw tendencies growing in the manner of conducting athletics which, unless checked, would be likely to more than offset all the advantages which are to be gained from athletics. They felt that the tendency of athletics, during the past few years, had been to efface that clearly defined line which separates amateur from professional athletics. They felt, also, that the strict observance of this line was essential...
...basement. The loss upon the philosophical collection will be about $15,000. It is believed by the best informed persons that the insurance - $70,000, and $50,000 additional, besides $15,000 for the philosophical collection, will place the college on as good footing as before the fire. To offset the adverse criticism for small insurance, the friends of the college say that it has not been the policy of educational institutions, as a class, to place insurance upon their buildings. Harvard College never had a dollar of insurance upon any of its edifices till within a few years. Amherst...
...rule at Princeton in regard to absences seems to be but a poor reform at best, and what little good it would do is offset by another regulation concerning excuses which goes into effect with it. The present Senior Board of the Princetonian sever their connection with the paper with this number. They end their labors with a pretty little dying speech, in which they express their satisfaction with themselves and the rest of the world...
...call attention to an article in another column in which a contributor discusses the advisability of the Freshmen rowing races with other Freshmen crews. The writer seems to us to prove successfully that the advantages of such races do not offset the expense incurred in carrying them out, and that now that class races afford ample opportunity for initiating Freshmen in rowing, the necessity of meeting outsiders for the purpose of practice in racing is almost wholly done away with. We are aware that the advocates of outside contests urge that the more experience a man has in racing...
...with another college nine, some of whose men are professionals. It establishes a precedent which, if followed up, will inevitably tend to lower the tone of all college organizations, and subject them to slurs similar to those cast on the honesty of professionals, while it offers no advantage to offset the harm it is sure to do. Whatever college resorts to the expedient of playing professionals on their team, should not expect to enter for an amateur championship. It is not too late to come to an understanding in the particular case referred to, and it is none too early...