Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Complete eligibility rules regarding athletics in the University, Yale, and Princeton have been adopted by the athletic committees of the three universities. The underlying object of the regulations is to keep out the spirit of professionalism without hampering the men by mere technical rules. Through out the negotiations Dean Briggs has represented the University, Professor R. N. Corwin has been Yale's delegate, and Dean Howard MacClenahan has been Princeton's representative...
...With a view to keeping the spirit and the associations of professionalism out of college sports without the unreasonable hampering of them by the mere letter of rules, and with a view to maintaining in mutual confidence at these three universities the same theory and practice in matters of eligibility, we adopt the following statement of principles...
...approval of the Committee of the Chairmen,* permit such participation in intercollegiate athletics by men who might technically be debarred under the letter of the rule, but who, in the judgment of the University Committee on Eligibility, have not commercialized their athletic ability or offended against the spirit of the foregoing provision...
...advisability of turning the University orchestra over to a professional conductor, however, is distinctly a debatable point. It is much more in keeping with the spirit of such an organization to have a member of the University at the head of it. Professional coaches, of course, are a necessity in nearly every field of amateur endeavor, and the Pierian is no exception to this. It should by all means have a professional coach, but on the concert platform it should be led by one of its own members, even at the risk of a less finished performance...
...practice of employing a professional conductor is contrary to the spirit of amateurism in all collegiate activities...