Word: actions
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Saratoga next summer, and because we have adopted this course we are pronounced by the outside world to have acted in a fair and straightforward manner. If we had severed immediately our connection with the Association, we should ourselves have felt satisfied that we were perfectly justified in our action; but as the general public would never have properly understood our motives, it is as well, perhaps, that we took a course which will not bring adverse criticism upon the College. Looking at the matter in this light, we should be grateful to the graduates for what they have done...
...their action has been regarded by some from another standpoint. It has been said that when they formed and supported crews they managed the boating affairs of the College, while at present we who are now undergraduates send crews and support them; and it is therefore claimed that the management of the boating interests should be intrusted solely to us. There is certainly some force in these arguments, but it is in the power of the graduates to deprive them of their force. The support of the crew is a burden which the undergraduates are very ready to share with...
...Dartmouth has a very sensible editorial about the action of Yale and Harvard. It pronounces Harvard "manly" for "withdrawing at a time when she will receive countless flings on account of never having won a race." It is somewhat annoyed at Captain Cook's alleged statement that Yale has a rivalry with Harvard alone, and consoles itself with the reflection that, whatever the Captain may think, the "majority" consider Dartmouth, etc., very formidable rivals. It admits that "colleges with an abundance of men and an abundance of money must dislike having to give up cherished plans for the sake...
...last Class meeting, some persons suggested that our action might be another influence in hastening the abolition of morning prayer; but I cannot but think that our rulers are already sufficiently aware of our opinions on this subject to be in no need of further prompting. That action may, however, be of use in showing them that public opinion would not be so violently opposed to such an improvement as is generally thought. At any rate, I do not think that we need fear what outsiders will think, if we are sure that we are doing what is right...
...certainly voted very impulsively at our meeting, yet I think that it would prove better to reconsider a hasty action than to have gone on in the old routine without giving the subject proper consideration. It is still possible for the Class Committee, if they find a feeling strong enough to justify them, to call a meeting at which the question may be discussed with proper care, and a decision reached that is of more value than a momentary impulse in a blind copying of an old custom...