Word: opinionative
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...earned by good scholarship and good conduct, has anywhere been held to render the recipient ineligible for membership of a crew, a nine, or an eleven. It would have been much more to the point to have presented evidence in the "official statement" in refutation of the wide-spread opinion that three of the players put on the field by Princeton at the beginning of the year, two of whom played against Yale and Harvard, are professionals, and ineligible, for any college team. One of these gentlemen, Mr. Ames, is currently reported to have received specific sums of money...
...very serious detriment to amateur and to college sports that men who have voluntarily assumed the status of professionals should be received upon college teams. Since no protest against the reception of these men from within their own college has been made public, we feel that a different opinion prevails at Princeton...
...opinion, that the action of Harvard, in withdrawing from the Intercollegiate Football League, is justified. To put on teams players who are not bona fide students has a pernicious effect on the teams, on the colleges, and on the sport. College athletics have become infected with professionalism, and there is no prospect of improvement under the present League. The spirit of recent conventions has been that of casting formal difficulties in the way of a proper agreement between gentlemen. We are convinced that the League in its present form is an obstacle to genuine sport...
...which I refer is to be found in the first editorial of the issue of December 13th. By those who are not on the spot and who may therefore think that the Advocate represents to some extent, college sentiment, this will perhaps be taken as an expression of undergraduate opinion-and it is deplorable that it should be so. No college paper since my connection with the college has ever shown such a conspicuous lack of the patriotism, the manliness and the modesty which will, I believe, always be found among these who truly represent the undergraduates of Harvard...
Were it not that our correspondent Nauseatus seems to have been suffering from his own malady at the time of his writing we should be inclined to agree with him in the opinion he has expressed. We cannot, however, join him in the uncharitable attitude which he has assumed toward good old Mother Advocate. If she be in error she need not be denounced as imbecile. Yet with all due deference to her we believe she is mistaken. Whatever may have been her intention, she has not fairly represented Harvard's attitude toward her own withdrawal from the foot ball...