Word: taints
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...Taint your epyletts an't feathers...
...take part in the sports. That Harvard will play Princeton in football is welcome news to all. Each university has considered the other its inferior for some years, and a game cannot be otherwise than a close struggle. As the meeting will take place on College grounds all taint of the too great publicity of university sports will be removed and the position of the game naturally strengthened...
...crowd whenever either side made an error, and the hissing of all questionable decisions of the umpire. This was done to be sure, mostly by outsiders, but Harvard men must make a determined effort to stop it. It is just this sort of thing which brings in the taint of professionalism to our amateur games...
...Professional base-ball players, professional rowers and professional athletes generally far surpass collegians in their specialties. Yet there are people who would rather see contests between collegians than professionals. The reason is that no taint of jockeying attaches to what the college boys do. There is every motive for extreme effort, and public opinion would discountenance every victory by a trick. This trait of disinterested honesty gives a special interest to expressions of political opinion by college men. Moreover, as they are alert in forming opinions, an idea of what the progresive intelligence of the country thinks on current topics...
...obtaining a title seems very objectionable; to resort to the same means to make a race, which could be obtained, if at all, by the usual methods known to collegians, seems the worst possible taste. While every effort is being made at present to illuminate the objectionable professional taint from college athletics, for Pennsylvania to make a move in the opposite direction is a blot on her reputation which she should hasten to wipe out by withdrawing her manifesto...