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...position which Yale has taken in her recent action disagreeing with the rule passed by her athletic managers is certainly much fairer and more sportsmanlike than it would have been had she agreed with their ruling. It tends, moreover, to better the prospects of an amicable and speedy agreement between the college and Harvard. By this action Yale shows herself opposed to the idea of the college in athletics and in favor of the university in athletics, which is what Harvard will doubtless stand for herself. Harvard's desire to eliminate professionalism from athletics was well defined three years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/3/1893 | See Source »

...State ownership will have the advantages of combination without its disadvantages by giving, - (a) A fairer division of fruits of labor - (b) A better and more economical management; New Nation II, 39.: Pop. Sci. Mo. XIX 402; Nation XXXVII 90 and 105; XXXVIII 136 - (c) Control of business interests to the masses; Bellamy "Looking Backward...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: English 6. | 3/15/1892 | See Source »

...last night's edition of a Boston paper there appeared an article severely treating a recent act of thoughtlessness on the part of a few Harvard students. In the edition of another Boston paper that act is treated in a more impartial and fairer light. We hope that the latter sprit of leniency is growing to be the one in which the press regards the college student. Any small undignified and indecorous act done by a student here is heralded all over the country, and, by the time it has reached the western payers, it has grown into an almost...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/13/1890 | See Source »

...second half the Harvard freshmen did rather better work and went at it with a great deal more snap. Yale was very much over-ma chod and perhaps the score with Corbett's goal from the field counted in, would give a fairer idea of the strength of the teams than the score which was actually given...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AGAIN VICTORIOUS! | 12/1/1890 | See Source »

This table gives a much fairer and, to Harvard, more favorable comparison of the growth of the universities. If this table is compared with the ones given in the Advocate for earlier years it will be seen how steadily and satisfactorily Harvard has grown in New York and the rest of the country...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Comparative Growth of Harvard and Yale. | 2/5/1890 | See Source »

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