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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...purpose to show that such practice would increase the chances of victory, but we do not mean to say that we should always beat Yale if allowed to practice with professionals, nor always succumb if the permission is refused. Practice with a superior team is always of the greatest benefit...
...would say that our experience with professional coaches in base-ball, rowing and track athletics has been a satisfactory one, and we see no reason why such should not be employed by you. So far as we can see, the engagement of professional trainers has always been for good to the men, and never harmful as to morals or otherwise. The undergraduates are at liberty to play any team they please, and there has never been any objection to their playing professional teams...
...change has given way to a more conservative scheme. At present the trustees are debating as to whether they should make the courses in the first three years entirely compulsory. They object to the introduction of the elective system as is now in vogue at Harvard, because, as they say, the professors in the higher courses are compelled to give young college men university courses, for which often times a knowledge of law, ethics, philosophy and political economy is necessary, so that if the professors explain topics referring to such subjects, they lose valuable time and impair their courses...
...necessary to go behind and say much in general about the value of books. Through them we learn man, the chief interest to all mankind...
...this way the object which was aimed at in drawing up the agreement between the organizations has been fully at tainted, and that in time the accounts will all be brought into the same shape without any sudden change. The committee feel that it is necessary for them to say that at no time has any one of the five organizations refused to submit the accounts for their inspection or to explain fully the particulars with regard to any of the items in these a counts...