Word: fights
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Varsity game with Yale is another reason for staying in Cambridge to-morrow, but all the Ninety men who can possibly do so should accompany their nine. To win the game the nine needs the support of the class, and with this support will give Yale a hard fight...
...healthful instinct is to cry, Away with it all; give young men their heads; let them go to work without professional guidance and solve the problem as they best can by themselves! This is. however, the dictum of persons like ourselves who are no longer in the actual fight and can afford to assume an impartial and most wise attitude toward the contest, swayed as we are by considerations entirely different from those which met us when, boys in red and blue, we were of the battle...
...have refrained from making any editorial comment on the recent performance in the Harvard Union, because we believed the fight to be a factional one and therefore not a fit subject for the expression of opinion on the part of a college paper, but later developments have made silence on our part no longer possible...
...seems that the fight originated in a desire of certain members of the Union to prevent the election of Mr. Mahany as President for the ensuing year. In order to gain their end they persuaded the present holder of the office to stand for another term. He consented. A canvas was instituted resulting in a large majority of the members of the Union pledging their support to Mr. Furber. On the eve of the election postal cards were sent to the adherents of the latter, calling upon them to remember their pledge and not to forget...
...This fight, although it has afforded the college a certain amount of amusement and at times has been most grotesque in its enthusiasm, should not be passed over with a laugh. It is a serious thing when a college undergraduate deliberately forges the names of his political enemies, it is despicable indeed when such a thing is done for the paltry object which was held in view in this instance. It is not often, and we are most thankful therefor, that the employment of such low means comes to light in college affairs. The controversy at first was honorable...