Word: various
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...contests; and, secondly, putting on teams good players who are not in reality amateurs, but have received compensation for the practice of their sport. In many cases this has goue no further than the acceptance of board, travelling expenses, and perhaps a money allowance for incidentals. Present players on various college teams-in Princeton. Yale, and Harvard alike-have accepted such pecuniary advantages. But in other cases it has included the acceptance of money for playing particular games, the acceptance of a salary for teaching athletics, and the practice of athletics for a livelihood. According to the invariable practice...
...machines with which the various class crews have to work at the gymnasium are entirely worn out, and it has become the imperative duty of the authorities, whoever they may be, to provide a new set. It is utterly impossible to do satisfactory work on rowing weights that are so far gone that they cannot be made to offer the slightest resistance, and which, therefore, men cannot possibly handle as they would an oar. These winter months are too valuable to be thrown away; the crews that use them to the best advantage always show it in the class races...
President Adams of Cornell has been making a tour of inspection among the various universities. He has visited Columbia, the University of Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins and Bryn Maur, and thoroughly investigated their several methods of instruction. He has now returned to Cornell...
...Others See Us" is a collection of clippings from various college papers on the football question. It presents in three pages what might have been presented in a column by judicious condensation. It may be of interest to those who do not see any outside college papers, but is wholly outside the class of articles the Advocate professes to devote itself...
...stock of London street and driving gloves in the mens' furnishing department is good now-much better than it will be after a few weeks. The Society has a good line of knit Scotch wool gloves in various patterns...