Word: fathoming
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...bring about. To effect this purpose a meeting of delegates from college faculties had recently been held in New York. A committee from that assembly would meet today when it was expected that, without doubt, all the colleges, with the possible exception of Yale, whose purpose no man could fathom, would unite in an agreement to do away with both employing professionals as trainers and playing with them in games...
...Transcript is responsible for the statement that "Yale has got the Smithsonian Institution Government fixed again in her interest as against Harvard's." What this dark hint may mean we cannot fathom. That there has been any active contest between the scientific professors of Yale and of Harvard for the control of the Smithsonian Institute, as this item would imply, is certainly a matter of news to the majority. Why Harvard should wish such control it is not easy to see. No, the Transcript is engaged in a very reprehensible business in fomenting jealousy between Yale and Harvard by dropping...