Word: disavowal
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...delight of the offenders and unnecessarily injure the good name of the University. But there is a limit in this as in all things. There are some acts of such a nature that the college community suffers, on on the other hand, if it does not openly condemn and disavow them. Such an act was that to which Dean Briggs's letter refers this morning, in terms which we believe will be a much more severe rebuke to the one who is guilty of the dishonorable deed than any words of censure from us. Without discussing the question whether there...
...team, or of the Harvard athletic authorities, would prevent the teams of the two universities from meeting in friendly rivalry another year. Accordingly, Harvard, as the defeated team, challenged Yale to a game this fall. In reply Yale refused to consider a challenge unless the Harvard team would formally disavow certain statements made by a Harvard coach,- a thing which they could not truthfully do. Harvard then made the only possible answer to this demand, and assuming that Yale's position, whether reasonable or unreasonable, was taken in good faith, supposed that there was an end for the present...