Word: season
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...curtail schedules, no necessity to deplore the natural tendency of mankind to test the strength and skill of one body of men against another; but there is a necessity to impress upon the athletes that their first duty is to their studies, and that participation in a hard athletic season is no excuse for an extended tour of recuperation. The opportunity is seized merely as an easy chance for a vacation, the uselessness of which is already realized by many of our most active athletic competitors. It is high time to give up selfish motives in the interest...
...wish, through your columns, to draw attention to a flagrant abuse, on the part of certain participants in athletic sports, of their privileges in these sports. Of late years it has grown to be the practice for an athlete, upon the completion of a season in which he may have been engaged, to consider himself justified, for the purposes of "recuperating his broken health," in absenting himself, in nine cases out of ten quite unnecessarily, from Cambridge for a substantial period...
...those who give a moment's thought to the matter, it is not difficult to understand the attitude of the Faculty upon this question. That body quite rightly reasons that if athletics have come to such a pass that at the termination of a season an athlete must leave Cambridge to the serious detriment of his college work, then measures should be taken, in the way of cutting down schedules, to alleviate this abnormal physical strain upon the constitution of said athlete...
Schedule of Games. Following is the complete schedule of games for the season, which will be played in Cambridge unless otherwise specified...
...tickets admit to all home games except that with Yale. For those who have no H. A. A. tickets, baseball season tickets are on sale at $3 each. which also give admission to all home games except that with yale. They may be procured at Amee's, Brine's, the Co-operative, Leavitt & Peirce's, and at Wright & Ditson's Cambridge and Boston stores