Word: dartmouth
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...report is being circulated throughout the college press that Dartmouth approves of the measure now being agitated in regard to the division of the present base-ball league into two - one composed of Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Brown - the other of Dartmouth, Amherst and Williams. This is a mistake, and should be corrected. It is the prevalent opinion here that the warm advocacy of this measure comes with but ill grace from the college whose nine has suffered defeat at the hands of Dartmouth in four out of the six contests in which the two have been engaged...
...Dartmouth professor is going to the Sandwich Islands for the purpose of exploring volcanoes. If the gentleman wishes to explore a really first class volcano in good working order we would recommend him to as interview with the Advocate editorial board on the subject of Memorial Hall...
...majority of the delegates, in this as in all other matters. When the matter of dissolving the league as it now stands and forming two others is brought before the convention, Harvard will have a perfect right to vote as she sees fit. Our relations with Amherst and Dartmouth have always been of a most friendly nature, and we trust that they may continue so. But we cannot think that in a matter of this kind Harvard should yield the indisputable right which she possesses of voting in the convention as her interests dictate to motives of friendship...
...view of the facts, therefore, that no official action has been taken in the matter, and that all of the expressed opinions of the college have been decidedly against any arbitrary measures being taken, we do not think that the Dartmouth is justified in indulging in such an editorial screed as the following...
...strengthened it lately. Her defeats are always due to a prejudiced judge, umpire or referee, or unfair play of opponents. Her shabby treatment of Columbia last summer is in full keeping with the principle which she follows; if defeat seems a foregone conclusion it is better to skulk away. Dartmouth has had as good a nine as either Harvard or Princeton since the league was formed, but has been unlucky. When she has added three or four more departments; when she establishes a nursery for cultivating base-ball talent; when she makes use of players until they have justly earned...