Word: actions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...wish the society every success and extend it my cordial support and good wishes, I cannot but feel that it is not as comprehensive in its movements as it might be if it is sought to interest the students more largely in its plans and in tended course of action...
...been found that the objectionable features of the game can not be done away with, then it is time enough to think of prohibiting the game. Something more, however, than the bare assumption of the committee is needed to prove that suitable and sufficient changes cannot be made. Any action by the Committee or by the Faculty which shall prohibit intercollegiate foot ball, without allowing us the chance to remove the objectionable features of the game, will be an inexcusable act of injustice towards the students...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON :-I desire to enter a protest against the action of the representatives of Harvard at the informal foot ball convention at New York following the Yale-Princeton game, in moving and voting (if the New York papers report their action rightly) to award the championship to Yale. I do not think that they represent Harvard's attitude on the question; certainly I am well assured that the greater proportion of the Harvard spectators of the game do not sympathize with their action. They probably desired to support the referee. Had they merely voted to leave the result...
...allowed to play games with other colleges, some action must be taken before the foot ball convention. The association should hold a meeting at once and instruct its delegates as to the nature of the changes which Harvard should attempt to pass in the convention, and then, perhaps, we shall be able to convince our faculty of the safety and propriety of a remodeled game of foot ball. We might at least make the attempt...
...procedure adopted by their freshman foot ball team. In fact, we can hardly conceive of an apology for the conduct of the eleven in failing to play the game agreed upon. The extract which we print in another column sets forth in plain terms the light in which their action was viewed at our sister university before the last action, namely a complete refusal to play the game was taken...