Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale to go to Princeton this year. The Yale men offer no objection to the first proposition, but say emphatically they will not entertain the second. Last year the Princeton faculty forbade the foot-ball team to play at the Polo Grounds in New York, or in fact anywhere, except on college grounds. As Yale held the championship, the game was of course played in New Haven. But the Yale men declare this by no means furnishes a precedent for playing the next game at Princeton...
...tables were prepared to accommodate about fifteen hundred persons, and they were completely filled by the Alumni and their invited guests, except a division on the left of the President's chair, reserved for, and occupied by, the undergraduates...
...Consequently, by every principle of fair play and justice, the game should be played in Princeton this year. But no; Yale made two objections. First, that the Princeton faculty could be easily persuaded to change their decision, and secondly, that the constitution prevented the game from being played elsewhere, except in New York. The result was a dead lock. A proposition was made to annual the constitution as far as the clause relating to the Thanksgiving game was concerned, but the motion was lost through the opposition of Yale and Wesleyan. Finally, the convention broke up, leaving the place...
...Conference Committee has been in existence now for one year, and although great promises were made of what the labors of the committee would gain for the college, we find as yet nothing of moment accomplished, except the change in the marking system. But as to this we are as yet unable to discover whether it was brought about by the efforts of the Conference Committee or was determined upon by the faculty without regard to the action of this committee. The cribbing question and the yard committee were the other subjects discussed last year. The former was magnified into...
...journal is not to represent any special school or body of economic doctrine, but is to be devoted strictly to the promotion of scientific investigation and discussion, a wide diversity of opinion among the writers of signed articles may be expected, the journal assuming no responsibility and guaranteeing nothing except that the views set forth in its pages are the well considered opinions of writers having a good claim to the attention of an intelligent public...