Word: correct
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...pretends to fear that she has been deceived in underestimating the strength of the Princeton and Harvard foot-ball teams. The News says: "A letter from a Harvard man says that their team did not exert themselves at all with the Techs. for fear that Yale would get too correct an estimate of their strength. In the newspaper reports of their games they are careful to allow few complimentary remarks to steal in. Yet all this while they are working as they never worked before; they are straining every fibre of strength that the college can boast, and when...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: We wish to correct a statement made by your paper in yesterday's issue. The sophomore class has held no meeting and taken no action in regard to any freshman theatre party. The meeting which you refer to was that of some fifty members of '85, who met in an informal manner...
...those to whom the welfare of our leading universities is dear, will hope for President Eliot's success in establishing the correct equilibrium between mental and physical training at Harvard, and great curiosity must be felt concerning the means he will employ.-[Mercury of the College of the City of New York...
...correct with stripes...
...understanding that there would be no race. If Mr. Watson gave the race to Columbia, understanding that the hour for the race was fixed for half-ebb tide, and that there had been no subsequent agreement changing the hour, Harvard admits that Mr. Watson's decision was logically correct, and in any event, of course admits to the decision. But, in fact, there was no agreement to row at half-ebb tide, but there was, as Harvard supposed, an agreement to row at 11:30 A. M. On this supposition, Harvard refused to give way, when asked by the Columbia...