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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...member of the eleven has received either from us or from outside parties, to our knowledge directly or indirectly any pecuniary compensation, either as an inducement to enter Princeton or as assistance while here. Neither have we entered into any form of promise or engagement to pay present or past expenses or to make future compensation in any way. Neither has any member of the team benefited by any business arrangement while here." This, however, can hardly represent the invariable attitude of the Princeton Football Association. We have been shown a letter addressed to a member of the present Harvard...
Rumors of irregularities in previous years have reached us, and while we have not been able to verify them, we cannot assert that Harvard has in the past been more free from this difficulty than her sister colleges. And even this year it is possible that vague and general promises of financial aid or advantage have been made by irresponsible persons; but the students and graduates, the officers of the athletic associations, and this Committee, all decidedly condemn any such offers, by whomever made...
Rule 2 shall go into effect on January 1, 1890, but shall not be retroactive, in the sense of disqualifying by reason of past acts men who would be eligible under the practice at that time existing...
...There is the same message at the close of the Old Testament and the beginning of the New. "I am the culmination of the prophets" He looks at the future, not last, but first; he holds the door open. Every man in his little way stands between the past and the future, the old and the new. In the life here a man has the advantages and collected thought of the past systematized for his use, and in the face of this beneficence he feels humble. His hope that he may deserve this is in his attachment to an unknown...
...relation of the present age to ward the doctrine of immortality. There is at present a tendency to less faith in this doctrine. This may be accounted for by the fact that there is perhaps less religious faith in the present age than there was in those that are past. But really what seems today less faith in the doctrine of immortality is merely a tendency...