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...resolution is that the crew or nine with a professional coach would have an advantage over crews and nines having no coach; that, therefore, professionals would be employed, if at all, university, and that this would tend to assimilate the "tone" of undergraduates with that of professionals, whose character is often low and whose motive is mainly mercenary. But why? Coaching by professionals cannot of itself make the motive of undergraduates mercenary, and nothing can prevent the motive of undergraduates being the desire to win, if possible. It seems, too, that it is a mistake to suppose that the employment...
...other of the competing colleges, is designed to break up the practice of playing match games in large cities, and drawing crowds for the sake of gate money. But are not crowds drawn to Yale and Harvard for gate money? And what are we to say of Columbia, whose consent to these resolutions is asked, which is situated in a large city, and which has no home grounds...
...green and gray professor. It is exasperating to be told that you must not learn athletics of an athlete, and that the faculty is liable to recommend to you, as an instructor in that department, a most worthy Christian gentleman, a friend of one of the trustees, whose health has broken down under the cares of a country parish. Still, this result would, we think, be more surely averted if the undergraduates would put the faculty on honor by treating its members as intelligent and responsible beings, instead of arbitrarily enforcing a ruthless discipline and harshly refusing a petition which...
...they exist with an idea of their former growth and of their future. To this end the club has engaged men who have been familiar with their respective branches for many years. Mr. Thomas Pray will deliver the lecture on "Cotton" and Professor T. Sterry Hunt, the geologist, whose knowledge of the iron resources of the country is unrivalled, that on "Iron." Within the week the club expects to have secured a lecturer on "Wool" and the list will then be complete...
...Bemis, whose notice of a new stock of cigars etc. appears on this page, claims that he offers superior in ducements to his customers on the ground that he selects the tobacco leaf for his won manufacture...