A correspondent in the Yale News advocates the hiring of a trainer at that college. He presents a number of arguments in favor of a professional trainer, all of which have been discussed over and over again in various college papers. The only importance of the letter is that it shows the different directions in which athletics, at the two leading colleges, are tending. While Harvard is struggling hard to exclude every trace of professionalism from her sports, Yale seems to steadily encourage its introduction into her athletics. The letter incidentally makes a mis-statement in saying that Harvard, at present, employs a professional trainer.
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