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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...gain, it can much more easily afford to make similar sacrifice upon the altar of vigorous and unsullied manhood. The question of a life, or of a score of lives is nothing compared with that of moral purity, human self-restraint, in the interests of which, among college men, outdoor athletic sports contribute more than all other agencies combined. As a matter of fact, the statements concerning bodily injuries incurred contain gross exaggerations. If athletics have been prostituted by gamblers and pugilists, let the college world come to the rescue and assign them to the place to which they belong...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chicago University Calendar on Athletics. | 4/3/1895 | See Source »

...spring football squad began work again in the gymnasium yesterday. The number of men was rather small, but will be considerably larger in a few days. Outdoor practice will probably begin some time this week. The candidates present were: A. Brewer, Hoague, Borden, Cabot, Hall, Townsend, Beebe, Moulton, Wheeler, J. N. Shaw, Duff and Bouve...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Football Squad. | 3/26/1895 | See Source »

...announced on Monday by the Princeton baseball association that there would be no games between Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania this year. This is a result of the recent action of the graduate advisory committee, as also of the Faculty committee on outdoor sports, and is based on the ground that the athletic contests between Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania have been the occasion of intense bitterness during late years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Princeton-U. of P. Baseball. | 3/6/1895 | See Source »

...high pitch, for there has been much to distract it. In former years, when three winter meetings were held, at least two of them generally lost all claim to the name by coming in the early spring rather than in the winter. At that time the many forms of outdoor athletics received all the attention of the students, and the natural result was neglect of the winter meeting. The Athletic Association not long ago found itself obliged to give up the third of the indoor meetings. Last year the attempt was made to rouse enough interest to carry through...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/14/1895 | See Source »

...year for the first time, and there seems no reason why it should not meet with entire success. There is ample material in the college to give one very good gymnastic exhibition, and that one is promised for the coming Saturday. Students will not now have the excuse of outdoor attractions which keep them away. They should give the association generous support in its effort to preserve the winter meeting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/14/1895 | See Source »

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