Word: plays
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Francis G. Peabody opened the meeting by explaining the purpose of the conferences. They are designee to bring the teachers and students closer together, and to give an opportunity to talk over the deeper issues of university life. The great trouble here at Harvard is the lack of "team play" among the right minded. There are many who have the best interests of the University at heart, but their efforts are less successful because they lack union. As time goes on, the tendency to deeper thought acquires greater strength. This is shown by the increase, this year, in the attendance...
First: Last year the regular Yale-Harvard game was scheduled for New Haven according to the well-understood agreement that each college should play on the other's grounds in alternate years. But Yale urgently requested that last year's game should be played in New York instead of at New Haven. To this our faculty and foot-ball management would only consent on condition that it should not be considered as establishing a precedent, and on condition that Yale should give satisfactory assurance that she would play in Cambridge this year. Accordingly Captain Beecher and Mr. Gill...
...college club or athletic association shall play or compete with professionals...
...loss to know what will be done next, or whether their outlays and training may be made naught at the last moment by some unlooked-for rule of novelty, it is not to be wonder that the teams are supported by the college listlessly, and that they themselves play with a feeling of indifference and a proneness to lay their continued defeats at the door of the faculty under whose regulations they labor with difficulty. If the tone of Harvard is today one of indifference, and if that has been brought about by the chain of events as I have...
Secondly, hire some professional base ball trainer for the nine, or at least allow the nine to play with professionals. We have a profess ional trainer for track athletics-the only sport in which Harvard has been almost uniformly successful-why not have one for base-ball? The secrecy which has surrounded the actions of our base-ball teams of late has insidiously brought about many abuses which only openness and frankness in the matter can eradicate...