Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Coach Watson was in the Harvard party that saw Yale at practice this evening. Comment on the Yale men is understood to be favorable to them. Harvard's practice this evening was on short stretches. This forenoon both crews were on the river a couple of hours, but neither covered the course. Tomorrow evening it is likely that Harvard will go over the four miles at speed. She has rowed the whole course already several times. She came here a week ago and this week is not likely to see the effort to do better than has yet been done...
...undesirable. - (a) At best, co-education in college open to positive objections. - (1) Lack of refinement and oversight in social matters, e.g., Oberlin: Forum, 17, p. 582. - (2) Girls thrown into critical atmosphere, e. g., they are made the subject of unpleasant comment by young men: Educational R., vol. 4, p. 518. - (3) Practically harder for girls than for men. - (b) These objections peculiarly forcible at Harvard. - (1) Policy is to allow greatest freedom in personal matters...
...this there is great injustice done to the college and to the student. There runs through all the comment on Harvard's apparent devotion to things of little real moment, a harsh note of accusation. The suggestion is that at Harvard the high ideals which properly belong to advanced education are lost sight of. On whom the responsibility for this fancied neglect of the ideal rests, is not generally understood; but instructors, as well as students, are implicated in the charge. The absurdity of this would be realized at once by one who knew anything of Harvard. There could hardly...
...Yale News yesterday printed the recent correspondence between the Harvard and Yale athletic authorities, with the following editorial comment...
...denial of certain charges, made by Harvard representatives, which (although we believe they are not shared in by the members of their last football team) have done Yale University and intercollegiate football an immense amount of harm. Harvard's apparently diplomatic reply does not require much comment. It means simply that the two great universities will not meet on the football field next fall...