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...further attention. Or we may consider it as something totally unworthy of a member of our community, as an affront to some of the best phases of the life of that community, and as an insult to the memory of one of our truest graduates. If so, we should uproot the evil, showing no mercy...
...like itself, would very likely have won. It may, however, well be doubted whether Harvard beaten has not a more honorable record than Princeton victorious. But enough of what is passed; there is work ahead which we must undertake. Harvard has stood foremost this year in an endeavor to uproot professionalism from college athletics. It is her duty to continue that endeavor. If possible, indeed, she should protest Princeton's doubtful players again, not of course to cancel their work in Saturday's game, but to hinder them from playing during the remainder of the season. The plea that...
...last number of the Advocate there appeared an article entitled "Lacrosse versus Tennis," in which the writer proves, to his own satisfaction at least, that Lacrosse is a dangerous innovation which is making dastardly attempts to uproot and scatter to the winds that venerable root of all - virtue, lawn tennis; and that, if it be not speedily wiped out of existence, untold misery will descend upon the community. The author of the article, - whom we shall take the liberty of dubbing ???, in order to avoid personalities - shows such an ignorance of facts that a little correction of his statements...