Word: sports
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...even before, criticism has been rife in regard to Harvard's so-called revolution in athletics. Rumors of all kinds have from time to time been put in circulation, and the coolness with which the imaginative writer has relegated Harvard to an inferior position in the field of sport, has a certain freshness which deserves better material. Without inquiry into the motives or desires of the faculty, the writers have described it as an unwarranted war upon "professionalism," a fatal blow to college athletics, and several other equally emphatic statements, which go to show that...
...several years past a change has been gradually occurring in physical training at Harvard. As has been shown before, the old system developed simply a few champions, and the little action of the faculty was in the shape of arbitrary rules, passed to render sports subservient to study. Under the new system, commenced with the introduction of Dr. Sargent, the faculty recognized the necessity of exercise holding a place beside study, and to that end have appointed a committee on athletics, who have a general supervision over all forms of exercise. The watchword of the old system was arbitrary prohibition...
...much at stake it behooves every foot-ball man to keep in as perfect condition as possible, not only during the winter months, but in the summer vacation as well, so that he may return in the fall ready to immediately adopt the strict training necessary for the sport and to be able to devote every particle of his strength towards gaining the highest position for his college...
...foundation for the News' article is thus seen to be on a par with the most of its assertions about Harvard. In addition to the testimony of these facts and records, we all know by what questionable means and unfair methods Yale obtains her superiority in the one sport in which she does excel...
...Columbia race should not be rowed if there is any possibility of its interfering either with the Yale race or with the general interests or comforts of our crew. True, Columbia men may be, and undoubtedly are, inclined to be more gentlemanly than Yale men, but in a sport like rowing, where ungentlemanly conduct cannot win as it can in foot-ball, we should choose the more effiicent adversary. However much Yale may strive to make herself disagreeable by her infantile cries of eel grass, such claims, which, even if allowed, only show a want of management and judgment...