Word: breaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This appeared to satisfy Mr. Baldwin. He sat down. But another Conservative, Lord Eustace Percy, hotly denounced the Prime Minister's decision not to resign as "a breach of his personal honor!" Lord Eustace Percy was ignored, the Cabinet gained a precarious lease on life...
...Crimson breakup of four years ago is concerned. Nothing was forthcoming as to Princeton's ideas on the subject, but a reaction is expected. The original statement came from William J. Bingham, director of athletics at Cambridge, following heated demands of the "Princetonian" and the "Harvard Crimson" that the breach be mended as soon as possible...
...Harvard and Princeton athletic breach cannot be permanent, for in the long run the old friendship of the universities, in spite of temporary cleavage, draws them together. The undergraduates at Cambridge and Princeton with fine spirit have taken the lead in asking that the traditional rivalry in sports be resumed as soon as possible. The difference in policies regarding football schedules is still an obstacle; the programs already arranged make a Princeton-Harvard football game before 1936 improbable. But in the other sports the colleges are not at cross purposes. Meetings in these can take place without great delay...
...present discussion, both the CRIMSON and the Princetonian agree that the football breach should not be allowed to interfere with the schedule of matches in other sports. The CRIMSON expresses it thus: "When there is no possibility of mending the football breach for a number of years at least. It is a narrow principle that will not admit a full program of sports to be more important that a game of football. The Princetonian states editorially: "...there appears no compelling reason, from the undergraduate viewpoint, for continuing a wholesale sacrifice of all sports to a dispute that began over...
Repeatedly in the past, the News has expressed the hope that Harvard and Princeton would bury the hatchet and resume football relationships. The CRIMSON, for one, refers to the breach as having been "unpleasantly made and foolishly maintained." We feel that reconciliation should come before the breach has time to become traditional and therefore irreparable. But it looks as though the issue will drag on for a number of years, gradually becoming more and more of a joke. There might even be benefit in that, because someday it will become so absurd that the continued estrangement of the two institutions...