Word: elements
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...speakers at the meeting of the Tariff Reform Association on Friday evening. It is asserted that the meeting could in no way be spoken of as representing the thought and feeling of the University as a whole, and in order to show the strength of the Republican element in the University it is proposed that a Republican club be organized. A call for a meeting of Republicans, now being circulated among the Law School men, has already found seventy signatures, and a large number of the Republicans of the Law School have not yet had an opportunity to sign...
...what has Yale with which to meet these two rivals-one desperate with defeat and the other confident of her strength. Yale takes up the contest with one element in her favor, and that is the enormous amount of material from which to draw her men and against whom to practice the ones selected. Yale's succession of victories has brought to her doors many men who, were it not for their love of football, might have strayed to other colleges. The desire to be on the Yale team has inspired them to hard work in the preparatory schools...
...they fear "contamination" and a "degradation of college spirit of honor and fair play." It is also well known that it is the desire of many of the faculty that intercollegiate sports should be narrowed down to contests between Harvard and Yale. This is the opinion of the conservative element. Having reduced the contests to Harvard and Yale, the faculty feel that they can bring sufficient pressure to bear upon the Yale faculty to induce them to abolish professional practice at that college. Here, it seems to us, the faculty is at fault. Even supposing such an arrangement could...
...followed and that an extra meeting, similar to the one under Mr. Lathrop's management, will be held. There is no doubt that such a step would be successful. It was proved last year that these winter meetings had not exhausted the interest in such exhibitions, and when the element of crew patriotism is added there is always an assurance of financial success...
With the approach of spring, the subject of paramount interest with the athletic element of the college is the make-up and prospects of the University nine for the coming season. Any prognostications about the position which we shall occupy in the league, are, at this season of the year, entirely out of place. The hard work of the men in the gymnasium has not been lost. By it some men have been shown to be worthless; the majority have shown a marked improvement...