Word: comments
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...spite of all that has been previously said regarding the proposal of Harvard to withdraw from the Inter-collegiate Base-ball League, it seems that our position is not yet sufficiently well understood to escape unfavorable comment from Dartmouth and of course from Yale. For the benefit of those colleges we desire to state once more the position which Harvard has taken, so far as she has taken any, upon this question...
...such ungentlemanly proceedings. The time is gradually approaching when gentlemanly and legitimate play alone will be tolerated, and intentional fouls will immediately disqualify. Until that time comes, a team will unquestionably have the advantage if it bases its play on the violation instead of the observance of the rules. Comment on such methods, however, is entirely unnecessary, for the spirit that prompts their adoption cannot be fully appreciated by many...
...regret that the Yale News has condescended to permit such language as the following to appear in its editorial columns. The flagrant misrepresentation contained in its statements it is useless to comment upon : "After Harvard had adorned the rear ranks for several years in the contest for base-ball championship, there was a boom started at that college this year that the Harvard Nine withdraw from the contest, inasmuch, as they then said, Harvard was known to be an institution 'devoted to learning only and not to athletics.' A university meeting was held for the university to take some action...
...were assembled in Boston in front of the screens on which the latest returns were cast by the lime-light lanterns, as each successive bulletin gave a larger majority for Butler, among the other cries, we are told, there were shouts of "Bad for Harvard!" Compare this with the comment of the Spectator on Lord Carnarvon's statement that "three-fourths of the literary power of the country and four-fifths of the intellectual ability" were on the Conservative side, and the answer by a writer in the Times giving a long list of eminent liberals. The Spectator says, "Neither...
...says; "Harvard's poor playing was a disgrace to men of the size and weight of those on the Harvard team." As to the Columbia-Harvard game it says that with her regular team Columbia would have won, "without much doubt." All of which it is needless to comment upon...