Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...main comment to be made on the Harvard-Yale foot-ball game yesterday is that it was a disgrace to college athletics. There should never be an act done on a foot-ball field, or anywhere else, which deserves the hisses of the spectators, and certainly the repeated and prolonged hissing yesterday was for the greater part all too richly deserved. [Boston Sunday Globe...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: Permit me through your columns to offer a few words of comment on the editorial in the last Advocate about Memorial Hall...
...have the full length track surrounding the other fields, and all of them shut in by a fence, as was proposed last year for Jarvis. The surplus land will be marked out for tennis, as well as what is now the ball-field on Jarvis. It is needless to comment on the advantages of such a plan, if carried out, over our present poor accommodations, which seemed to be reduced by a fresh slice every year. This will provide us with a perfect ground, large enough for any and all the sports, and will have - what we have always missed...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: The extraordinary document signed by Harvard graduates, which appeared in this morning's papers, cannot fail to excite considerable comment. To use the mildest terms possible under the circumstances, it cannot but seem utterly out of place and uncalled for to the majority of the students of the college. That such a document could have been written and signed on the 7th of July is easily understood, as at that time nothing had been said on Harvard's part to completely explain the difficulty. But after Harvard's part has been officially explained, and that...
...rumor of a speculation in the way of a new hall for university students calls properly for some comment from the college press. The Advocate, in its last number, felt the need of some extra accommodations in view of the large classes of late years, and we join with it most heartily in urging such an outlay on the part of the college. The present rumor should only serve to hasten some official action in the same line and to deliver future class-men from the tyranny of boarding houses and outside establishments. With the present limited accommodations the freshman...