Word: respectable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...question with respect to athletics that has recently been discussed by college faculties, and which is not yet settled, is whether college organizations should be allowed to play with professional organizations, and also whether they should be allowed to employ professional trainers. There can be but little doubt that no harm need necessarily follow from a contest with a professional team at the proper time and place. Professional teams are under rigid discipline ; and the opportunity for association with the members of a team during a contest, at the worst, is slight. Professional athletes are not ipso facto...
...opening what we took to be the latest number of Life we were astonished to find at the head of the page, (it was the fourth page, by the way, where there are no illustrations) the unfamiliar title The Yale Quip. Not that the Quip is in any respect like the journal of which it is a manifest imitation, from title page to the last advertisement, except in its typographical work. For we must confess that the paper is a great disappointment. After hearing its praises heralded abroad by the News in such terms of flattery, we expected something better...
...many of our colleges the professors are treated in an arrogant, dictatorial way that cannot be commended. It tends to destroy their self-respect and to render them detain. The students should understand that it is not their business to supervise the morals or manners of professors, except in the class-room. If the professors are made to feel that they themselves are the arbiters of their own actions, and that they are looked upon by the students as gentlemen and scholars, a higher tone will soon begin to prevail among them. Acts of disorder-such as the "marking down...
...time on one side can engage in base-ball; it is also true that there are nine hundred and fifty men in college, for whom for many reasons it is desirable that some form of athletic sport should be open; but we fail to see in what respect the game of base-ball loses in value on account of either of these facts. We are not aware of any other athletic sport in which many more than nine men at a time can be engaged. In foot-ball there are eleven, in lacrosse twelve, and in rowing, usually eight...
...value of the game in itself cannot be affected by its value for collegians only; and we take President Eliot's criticisms on the limited number able to play in the game to refer to this only. Many people, whose opinion in such matters is equally entitled to respect with president Eliot's, think the game an excellent and highly interesting one; hence President Eliot, before indulging in wholesale condemnation of the game, should take care to set forth good reasons for his opinion. To call a game "wretched" and "one of the worst games," obviously in itself...