Word: decent
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...make a stand against what was an evident injustice. If there is any cowardice, it is certainly not on Harvard's part, and we would ask the News to reflect whether urging their freshman nine to play in New Haven or not at all, is showing that "decent spirit of fairness towards equalizing the odds" of which it talks so pathetically...
...have, I suppose, a superintendent of the yard. Why does not this college superintendent do something to remedy matters? No doubt the old excuse of "no funds" will be raised. Well, if Harvard can't afford decent sidewalks, it better shut down at once. Many other complaints are rife among the students. We want the library lighted by electricity; we want better lights and more of them in the yard, the doorways, and the entries; we want to know what the faculty are going to do about the resolutions on athletics; we want no recitations on legal holidays. This inactivity...
...consequence compared with the playing of the eleven. We should in fact, be only too happy to see our eleven victorious this year clad in all the colors of the rainbow, still it seems only fair to the subscribers to the foot-ball team that they should have a decent looking eleven to show their friends as the one representing Harvard, when they take them to see a game. Of course in the present unsettled condition of the eleven this is impossible and in the matches which are played now, we expect to see a team on the field, every...
...manner in which the News talks to Yale '87 : "We must be allowed the privilege of informing the freshman class that the university foot-ball authorities will not allow them to play any game with Harvard unless they put in the field a team with some claim to a decent proficiency in the game. When other freshmen classes have sent thirty men to the park from the first of the season, the class of '87 has never at one time had more than six. Six men out of 170 ! When you entered this college you no doubt felt yourself weighed...
...interview with President White he informed your correspondent that his views on the subject of co-education have not been changed by experience. He says that its influence on student life is to make that life more decent; that co-education at Cornell is a success; and that sooner or later it will be the rule at all live educational institutions deserving of the name. Columbia will probably not adopt it until the dwellers at that unfortunate monastery emerge sufficiently from barbarism to give over duelling and other mediaeval practices...