Word: fight
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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President McCosh of Princeton, says that : "A great crisis has now come in regard to the higher education of the young men of America. It is now to be determined whether students shall be at liberty to take any branches they choose. The fight is only begun, and will continue for years, and Princeton, with its professors, trustees, and alumni, will take part in the contest...
Although not very instructive, it is certainly amusing to note the reckless newspaper fights in which our Yale and Princeton exchanges are now engaged. The charges and countercharges which are made are truly wonderful, especially when we consider that the people of these United States are accustomed to base at least a large part of their assertions upon fact, and not rely entirely upon fancy. However, we suppose that a certain amount of fancy must be expected from the students of Yale and Princeton, when engaged in a foot ball fight-even on paper. But some of the assertions which...
...game the esthetic possibilities of which are so great as those of foot ball. If the Harvard Athletic Committee will but think of the pleasing combinations of color and the artistic roupangs possible in a game of foot ball, and instead of shuddering at it as a "brutal prize fight," consider it in the light of a "study in orange and black," or a "symphony in blue and crimson," we feel confident that they will withdraw their objections and let it live.-[Courant...
...life or death to the interests of the Harvard Foot Ball Association, and yet such a crisis, the gentlemen in whom this trust has been placed, calmly sit in their rooms and quietly let things take their course, or in other words, they let other men fight their battles for them. At the conference last Monday night, a time at which every effort should have been made for the retention of foot ball, not a single director or officer of the association was present, and of the members of the eleven, only three, including the captain, attended the meeting. These...
...make should withdraw, when the hearing could be conducted in the director's office. Although this is contrary to the custom in cases where public hearings of men are called for any purpose, the students as a body gracefully withdrew and allowed a few of the more argumentative to fight out the battle...