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...that the crew or nine with a professional coach would have an advantage over crews and nines having no coach; that, therefore, professionals would be employed, if at all, university, and that this would tend to assimilate the "tone" of undergraduates with that of professionals, whose character is often low and whose motive is mainly mercenary. But why? Coaching by professionals cannot of itself make the motive of undergraduates mercenary, and nothing can prevent the motive of undergraduates being the desire to win, if possible. It seems, too, that it is a mistake to suppose that the employment...

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

...question has been: "Is he a good man?"-not, "What is his college?" I think that I can see the growth from year to year of a catholic spirit which naturally distinguishes the University from the College, and which eradicates gradually from its members the petty prejudices which too often vex the souls of undergraduates. Starting on a higher plane and with a more exacting standard than other clubs, its course thus far promises a future more splendid and useful than any other predecessors or contemporaries. I have heard complaints from within and without that its rules were too strict...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY CLUBS. | 2/28/1884 | See Source »

...year completion becomes keener and more pitiless. Only constant effort will enable a man to continue his reading and to keep his mind and tastes in such cultivation that he will find in such cultivation that he will find himself en rapport with men of letters. It is too often the case that nothing but a bank account distinguishes the capitalist from the socialist. Justus Schwab says, "Shoot the rich man;" and the rich man says, "The public be blanked!" Ignorance is the only common bond between them, and that fosters their mutual hate. The poor men and self-styled...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY CLUBS. | 2/28/1884 | See Source »

...correct solution his opinion will be well worth hearing. The remaining lectures are to be a review of the three great industries, cotton, iron and wool. These three words are constantly in the mouths of the people, as the subject of tariff reform is so often mentioned in the daily papers and reviews. For this reason the club has determined to give the students an insight into the workings of these industries as they exist with an idea of their former growth and of their future. To this end the club has engaged men who have been familiar with their...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/25/1884 | See Source »

...sixth resolve, though not as objectionable as the third, is yet needless and harmful. Often deciding games are unfair when played upon the grounds of one of the competing teams, as the home team has all the advantages of knowledge of the grounds and heartier support. Often by playing on grounds mid-way time is saved...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/22/1884 | See Source »

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