Word: summer
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...February number of the Outing Magazine Mr. Caspar Whitney has come out with a vehement attack on college baseball players who take part in "summer baseball" for one consideration or another. Mr. Whitney is not wrong in his estimate of the corrupting influence of this "crooked amateur," but he directs his remarks against Harvard, Yale and Princeton "because of their prominence in the college world and not at all to single them out as graver offenders than others." He commends President Tucker's act in disqualifying certain guilty players at Dartmouth "to President Eliot of Harvard, President Hadley of Yale...
Although inclined to doubt seriously the condition that Mr. Whitney depicts at Yale and Princeton, we can speak authoritatively only of Harvard. Certainly here the summer baseball player and semi professional is not now present. The University takes pleasure in the geauine of its team. Indeed, if the semi professional were representing Harvard, it could not be attributed to President Eliot if he did not get his descries, for he speaks through ignorance who accuses the President of any lack of courage in such matters...
...Graduate School of Applied Science, in each of which have been treated the special rules on admission, prizes, degrees, and so on. It may be also observed that the Lawrence Scientific School is hardly more than alluded to, owing to its absorption by the College. An article on the Summer Engineering Camp--practically another engineering laboratory--and also information on the Harvard Forestry Reservation at Petersham, acquired only last fall, is included...
While abroad last summer G. Emerson '08, manager of the University track team, conferred with representatives of Oxford and Cambridge, and discussed the situation with a view to effecting a resumption of the contests. On his return to America, he conferred with the Yale track management, who are also anxious to arrange the meet...
...decrease of 62 from last year's figures. The registration of the Lawrence Scientific School, the Bussey Institute, and the Afternoon and Saturday Courses for Teachers indicates a considerable falling off from last year, which is not counterbalanced by gains in the Law School and the Summer School. The drop in the Lawrence Scientific School was to be expected, since many men are taking advantage of the opportunity to register in Harvard College for the degree of S.B. The loss from this cause is, however, only 108 as compared with 300 last year. The Graduate School of Applied Science...