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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...very powerful article appeared in yesterday morning's Post on the subject of intercollegiate athletics. It is an article that every man interested in the present athletic situation would do well to read for it goes right to the heart of the matter and contains a condemnation of the professionalism which is now so prevalent. The game with Princeton last Saturday and the meeting held in New York last week are made the basis of the article. The writer says that a state of athletics when protests and affidavits are even necessary is not the state which should be sought...
...HUNT. Secretary.The Natural History society will meet at its room this evening at 7.30 o'clock. Mr. George J. Pierce is expected to read a paper on Symbiosis...
...Captain Cumnock proceeded at once to state the reasons for which the meeting had been called, using as a text a letter from Mr. Francis M. Weld '60. The scope of the letter was that Harvard should take some stand against professionalism, and after the letter had been read the subject was thrown open for discussion. Honore '88, moved that Harvard offer to Yale to form a dual league in football. The motion upon being seconded, was fully discussed by speakers from the floor, and Mr. Hooper '80, read two letters, one from Mr. Robert Bacon, of Boston, the other...
...Midsummer Night's Dream" will be read by Mr. Riddle in the She and Memorial Chapel, Thursday evening, November...
...Intercollegiate Foot Ball Association was held yesterday morning in the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York, Mr. Richards of Yale in the chair. The meeting was called by Harvard for an oral examination of Ames, Princeton's full-back, and Mr. Leeds, Harvard's delegate, proceeded at once to read evidence against Ames. Princeton objected on a point of order as the affidavit had been questioned before it had been received. The chair sustained Mr. Leeds, but was overruled by Princeton, University of Pennsylvania and Wesleyan, the delegate from the latter college taking two hours to cast the deciding vote. Harvard...