Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...action of the college at the mass meeting last evening needs little comment. There were two distinct issues before the students, one based on the past, the other on the future; but only in the former was any binding action taken. Harvard has decided to withdraw unconditionally from the football league, and this is as it should be. By so doing she has put herself on record as the champion of purity in intercollegiate athletics. Whatever may be the result of her action, she has assumed of her own accord an independent position which cannot successfully be challenged...
...sentiment expressed in the first part of the Princeton letter published today is obviously so unfair as to need little comment, and yet it may be well for us to state the case as it actually is. There is now a genuine and laudable effort making to exclude professionalism from college athletics. As a first step in this movement it has seemed necessary that all the colleges in the league be required to furnish certificates that the members of their athletic teams are bona fide members of their college. In accordance with this rule Harvard has sent to Princeton...
...protesting fifteen men, among them some who have not been in Princeton this year. The protests themselves are harmless, of course, but Harvard's willingness to descend to such low-down measures, thus to go beyond all limits with the hope of crippling the Princeton eleven, has caused much comment here, which is not calculated to flatter Harvard's athletic spirit. In spite of all efforts to prevent her, Princeton will send an eleven to Harvard next Saturday which, although it may not be such a team as the college hoped for at the first part of the season, will...
...Princeton library has been enlarged since the beginning of the college term by the addition of 335 books, most of which have been bought at auction. The department of History has been benefited greatly by the new books. The "Stories of the Nations" which has excited so much favorable comment have been added entire. Kinglake's Crimea in eight volumes and four volumes of Browning's Tuscany have been given to this department. The department of Biography has been enlarged by Peigrot's French Biography; Politics, by Carson's work on the Centennial of the Constitution. To the department...
...Keynote of Keat's Poetry" delivered last commencement by Mr. R. E. N. Dodge, needs no comment...