Word: codman
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...meeting of the Canoe club held last evening the following men were elected: From the Law School O. B. Roberts. Skinner, Alwood; from '90, P. Garrison, Chamberlain; from '91, J. A. Parker, Lamb, Corning, A. B. Nichols, S. W. Allen, E. Codman; from '92, Cummin, Powers, Watriss, Hyams, Robbins, Rhoades, Thorndike, Steedman, Greenough, D, Jones; from '93-Dunn, Battelle, Falk, Merriam, Denny, Fearing, C. C. Baldwin, Pike, Robb, W C. Nichols...
Athletics-Rushers: Morrison, Codman, Whitman, Kipp, Houghton, Garrett, Hunt; quarter back, Kimball; half backs, Curtis. Peters; full back, Hunt...
...recent issue of the Boston Post contains a letter from a graduate who takes a different view of the foot-ball question from that held by Mr. Codman. The letter admits that the meeting of last week was premature and possibly unjust to Princeton, but denies that it was due to the sting of defeat. After pointing out that unfriendly feeling between Harvard and Princeton did not begin with the foot-ball game the letter describes Harvard's position in the following words...
...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 thousands of dollars if we got the Thanksgiving day game. The fact is, as Mr. Codman says, Yale has been using us this year as a cat's paw to pull her chestnuts out of the fire. I think you are right in saying that "Mr. Codman's charge of hypocrisy in these matters is most unjust," but Mr. Codman only voices the convictions of many graduates and undergraduates as well...
...must say I think Mr. Codman was most unjust to the college in attributing our agitation against semi-professional graduate players to our defeat. He shows that he is not up in the facts. The movement was well under way, as your readers most of them know, long before the Princeton game. The credit of it belongs to Harvard, and I fancy if we here at Cambridge were to inquire into its beginnings, we should have to admit that our faculty and their committee started the movement in the strictures they imposed on the members of our team and those...