Word: thinge
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Cornellites that the Hobart men had engaged some outside talent, and to this the Cornell nine attributed their defeat. Trouble ensued, the Cornellites claiming that they were not honestly beaten, and charging the Hobart nine with unfairness, and the latter asserting that it was not an unusual thing to engage ball-players not connected with the college. The Hobart faculty interfered and sided with the Cornell nine. They advised the freshmen to acknowledge their unfairness and try it again on a square basis. The victorious freshmen demurred, and a few days since the faculty called a meeting of the class...
...Harvard, '86," says the Yale News, "is an enthusiastic and energetic class. Their athletic meeting was a great success, and their pluck and push is bound to prove very valuable to the athletic interests of our great rival. Let Yale, '86, take notice, and do every thing in her power to aid in maintaining our present high rank." Praise, we feel sure, that the freshmen have very deservedly won. May their exertions not falter until success in every field has crowned their efforts, and through their aid the championship in athletic sports, so long withheld from Harvard, may be reclaimed...
...spite of the severe reprobation of the other Yale papers the Record bravely holds to its original opinion that the Yale faculty did an unwise thing in refusing to accede to President Eliot's request in regard to playing with professionals. "It is high time," it says, "however awkward it might be for our nine, that a broad boundary be put between college athletes and professionals. Though we realize perfectly that our nine, deprived of the practice it gets against professionals, would play a much poorer game than at present, and probably would not meet as good amateur nines...
...thing more, as to the "hic jacet." Is not this last attack the best way to stir up a real old-fashioned theatre party? If the custom was dead, why revive it again by trying to turn a quiet theatre party of forty fellows into a noisy revel of a whole class...
...cannot be doubted. To produce a team that will play an almost faultless game, or athletes whose records excel the best, should not be the sole end and aim of all our college sports. It is true that by success in this way a general interest in all these things can best be fostered; but, when we sacrifice to this aim all the better uses of college sports and very nearly subvert the fundamental principle of amateur sports and pastimes, which seeks to afford to the greatest number the freest chance for exercise and sport, then it may justly...