The College

"Some of the alumni [in the 1870s] were exasperated by the growing vogue of sport.... One graduate of great influence transferred his son from Dartmouth to Middlebury as a result of his feeling of indignation at the growth of athletics, and became bitterly hostile toward President Smith.... Another father, whose son was a member of the crew, protested with entire seriousness that the College should pay the boy, who was working for interests of the institution, as much as he could have earned in other ways during the period of his athletic activity."

History of Dartmouth College