Word: evens
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...side than the ordinary contests on the gridiron. Yale has been laboring with her proverbial grit against heavy disadvantages. The sympathies of all sportsmen have been with her in her efforts to maintain the magnificent record she has made in the past, by the exercise of those qualities which even her hereditary opponents cannot but admire and honor. Harvard, on the other hand, has strained every nerve to burst the chain of defeats which have been piling up their weight until it has become almost unendurable. The two teams have met, therefore-the one desperate in its fight to prove...
...they would not be considered either swaggering or insulting. In short, though we acknowledge some doubts as to the advisability of publishing verses which are necessarily so crude, we do not consider that any one inside or outside of college would have strong grounds for regarding special lines, or even the whole composition, as a serious expression of college opinion...
...college. Just at present it is of the atmost importance that everybody shall go down to Soldiers Field next Saturday with an intense appreciation that then and there is the chance of a college life-time. If therefore a song, or a series of songs, can do even a little to arouse a feeling that the game must be won no matter what the strength of the opponent's eleven, we think that the publication is justified. We regret, deeply, however, that it has proved offensive to heads of the University to whom the undergraduates owe so much...
...been so well qualified for the position as other undergraduates, who would probably have been elected by a mass meeting. On the other hand, there is a popular superstition that when students gather together in a mass meeting, they immediately lose their heads and vote for the wrong man. Even granting that this may be partially true, it seems that the small body of students who now choose the committee might be more representative. As it is now, the Cycling Association and the Cricket Club have as many votes as the Football Association and the Crew. Professor Hollis, has however...
...game that is to come Harvard bears an especial responsibility to treat a respected adversary with all hospitality. Therefore, even though there should be some apparent provocation as is always possible in the heat of excitement we hope that no breaks will be permitted. Such behavior as Saturday's is perhaps a matter of small practical effect, but it outrages all the traditions of Harvard savoir faire, and is an unworthy relapse...