Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...look forward to with keenest expectation. Until we win, therefore, and earn a place in that game, our efforts toward a dual league will result practically in a dual league between Yale and Princeton, with Harvard "outside the breastworks." It seems to me much like saying to Princeton, "We cannot beat you, but we consider you the scum of the earth, and we will shove you out if we can." To which Princeton naturally answers. "shove ahead, and we'll see who goes out! " For we must remember, we cannot play in New York, and that it would lose Yale...
...Princeton should put into the field a fair team capable of competing with Harvard. It is merely a question of resources-nothing more. Princeton, therefore, in order to maintain her place in the league has been forced to call upon her graduates or upon outsiders for support. Now it cannot be denied that Harvard has done this in the past. So much to her discredit. But today she stands in all sincerity for purity in athletics, and occupying this ground, she is willing to admit that she cannot in justice to her position, compete with such a team as that...
...entirely in the wrong, but as a graduate of Harvard, a former member of university teams, a friend to Princeton and fair play, I feel I have the right to voice the sentiment and questioning of many men of Harvard, who, with the stories and facts as now presented, cannot help feeling that the smart of defeat, despite protests to the contrary, has had undue influence in the attack on Princeton. I have, I regret to say, played on Harvard teams when I blushed at the unfair play of the men next to me on the Harvard side...
...insists in imputing false motives to us and in refusing to help raise the tone of college athletics we shall be justified in refusing to compete again with her. The least our graduate friends can do is to give us the credit of honorable intentions even if they cannot agree with our methods...
...game of base ball or of foot ball reported, as they are well aware of the likes and dislikes of their readers. This "abnormal interest" in athletic contests brings about betting, a "sign of a low state of ideals." Betting in college is a great evil as men who cannot afford to bet are sorely tempted by the example of those who can afford...