NOTES
Preface
1.
Lord Chesterfield, letter to Philip Stanhope, 22 Feb. 1748, in Earl
of Chesterfield, Letters to His Son (London: J. Dodsley, 1775), Vol. I,
p. 321.
Chapter I. The English Background of Early American
College Sport
College Sport
1.
James M. Whiton, "The First Harvard-Yale Regatta (1852)," Out-
look LXVIII (June 1901), 286. Whiton's doctoral dissertation at Yale,
"Ars Longa, Brevis Vita," was completed in 1861. During his life he was
Rector of Hopkins Grammar School, New Haven, Principal of Williston
Seminary, Easthampton, and Pastor of Congregational churches in Lynn,
Massachusetts, Newark, New Jersey, and New York City.
2.
Ibid., 287; and Charles F. Livermore, "The First Harvard-Yale Boat
Race," Harvard Graduates' Magazine II ( Dec. 1893), 226.
3.
Whiton, "The First Harvard-Yale Regatta," 286.
4.
"Cambridge University Swimming Club Account, 1882-1895," Add.
8088, Cambridge Univ. Library Mss.
5.
Ibid.
6.
Percy Manning, "Sports and Pastimes Pursued in Oxford and Neigh-
borhood Down to About 1850," Vol. II, p. 373, Ms. Top. Oxon. d. 202,
Oxford Univ. Library.
7.
Ibid., Vol. III, p. 1.
8.
Ibid., 166.
9.
Ibid., 167.
10.
"Memoranda Cantabrigiensia," The Sporting Magazine XXII, n.s.
(May 1828), 30.
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Book title: Sports and Freedom: The Rise of Big-Time College Athletics.
Contributors: Ronald A. Smith - Author.
Publisher: Oxford University Press.
Place of publication: New York.
Publication year: 1990.
Page number: 221.
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