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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...athletic committee to investigate the minutest details of our out-of-door life, even to the making of long journeys at the expense of the college, the corporation of old inspected and regulated the life of the Puritan collegians of the 17th century. They even felt called upon to say exactly what they should eat, and what they should drink, as the records still plainly show. On June 23, 1692, the corporation held a meeting in Boston, and discussed the subject of "Plumb Cake" with this result...
...reason that the faculty declined, point blank, to give the slightest information relative to their action. Though four different members of the faculty were interviewed by representatives of the CRIMSON, yet, in each instance, the only information elicited was to the effect that they had, as yet, nothing to say about the newly adopted regulations. Just why this mysterious state of affairs should exist, it is difficult to understand, inasmuch as the decision of the faculty meeting is final, and therefore bound to become public in a short time...
...Says President Bartlett of Dartmouth, "We believe in government by the faculty." Coming from President Bartlett, such a statement perhaps is not surprising. In hearing it, one is led to think of all the great tyrants of history, who in their lives-if not in actual words-have said, "We believe in ourselves, and in government by ourselves." Not that we would, in speaking thus, imply that we think there is an exact similarity between the tyrants of early times, and the college faculties of to-day-although times have been when we have had no small reasons...
President Eliot, commenting, in his last report on the brutality of foot ball, says, "None of the popular games or contests which have proved long lived and respectable, (The italics are our own.) like cricket, tennis, fencing, shooting at a mark, rowing, sailing, hunting, jumping, and racing on foot, horseback, or bicycle, involve any bodily collision between the contestants." The president, in omitting base ball from this list, does not say, unfortunately, whether he places the game among the new, or the disreputable sports. His opinion, however, can be conjectured from the fact that bicycle riding...
...than it was fifty years ago, but there is still a selfish disregard of their rightful claims, because of their helplessness, on the part of their more money-getting brethren, which savors of meanness and hypocrisy in a community which is forever pointing with pride, as the nation would say, to their schools and their colleges. We want for Harvard College, to place her professors and other insturctors on a proper footing, just to them and creditable and secure for us, $60,000 more per annum, or something over $1,000,000; and now is the opportunity you New Yorkers...