Word: fall
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...MCKITTRICK, Sec.HARVARD SHOOTING CLUB. - The following men must be at the Park square depot before 6 p.m. to go to Princeton via Fall River boat to New York: Lawton, Du Pont, Dove and Sargent...
...much talked of correspondence between Harvard and Yale on the subject of a football game next fall is today made public. The Yale letter, written in a spirit of firm, manly independence, is not dictatorial in tone, nor does it demand that Harvard shall humble herself, as the press of the country would seem to make us think...
...shared in by the members of their last football team) have done Yale University and intercollegiate football an immense amount of harm. Harvard's apparently diplomatic reply does not require much comment. It means simply that the two great universities will not meet on the football field next fall...
...must also be remembered that this latest move has been made only after the most careful consideration on the part of the management and its graduate advisers. Yale was not anxious to revive any of last fall's unpleasant and unfortunate relations, so decisive action was delayed until Harvard broached the subject of a next year's game. And then came the letter, which, although it was likely to take away one prominent feature from our coming football season, was inevitable in some such form, if we were to maintain our self-respect. We repeat, our stand has not been...
...difficult to understand the position which Yale has taken with regard to the football game next fall, or rather to understand her motive in taking it. She can never have expected that Harvard would conform to the preposterous conditions which she proposes, and it seems extremely ill-advised just now to complicate the already difficult football problem. If it were Yale's deliberate intention to prevent a game next year, she could scarcely have gone about it in a surer way. Harvard men will be in perfect accord with the spirit of the letter in which their athletic committee...