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Dates: during 1880-1889
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DEAR SIR.- A majority of your college, as well as a good proportion of Harvard, seem to be opposed to a dual league, as matters now stand. But will not all be in favor of proposing to Princeton a close triple league, and accompanying this proposition with the definite threat of a dual league in case they decline. And of course Princeton would not decline. For they are especially sensitive about being classed among secondary colleges...
...three colleges concerned to come to a satisfactory understanding. There are two possible objections, however, to Harvard's acceptance of this scheme. The first of these is that as stated it offered no check to professionalism and to the return of graduates to college simply for athletics. From the stand which Harvard has already taken her position on this point is not at all doubtful. She certainly cannot afford to enter any league which does not preclude the possibility of such abuses. But stringent rules could easily be adopted to avoid this possibility, and if this were done, certainly Harvard...
...shape, fifteen feet wide and a sixth of a mile in circuit. It is very carefully underdrained and is composed of pin gravel covered to a depth of nine inches with cinders. The track is so arranged that the finish of the races will be opposite the grand stand which is also just back of the catcher's position in base ball. The upper end of the field has been cut down so that there is little grade, and everything has been done to give the men the best possible chance for athletic practice and contests...
...atmospheric ink-stand patented a few years ago has had but a limited sale on account of its expense: its advantages have been obvious from the start. Recently the makers have reduced the regular price and the Society bought largely to secure the maximum discount...
...frank and honorable." The resolution to withdraw is a firm "declaration on Harvard's part that she has become dissatisfied with the state of intercollegiate athletics" Harvard does not profess to be much better than her neighbors; she confesses her sins, and, as some one must make a stand, she does it. The second resolution, however, undoes everything the first one accomplishes. The first resolution is a step towards purity in college athletics, the second looks as though Harvard had eagerly seized an opportunity of forming a dual league with Yale; it seems as though purity in athletics...