Word: footing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...only congratulate Harvard and the other colleges interested on the latest action of Harvard's faculty. Let us hope too that foot-ball, having successfully passed this crisis, will hereafter be upheld, without interference, for better or for worse by all colleges that have fostered the sport...
...same subject the News says: "It is with great pleasure that we learn of the revocation of the Harvard faculty's decrees forbidding foot-ball. This course was taken, it seems, in response to a popular feeling among the students and professors, that the game as played under the revised rules, is one that can be indulged in with profit and pleasure. We are glad that the games played this fall have shown that it is something mere than an exhibition of brute strength and inordinate roughness. We are further pleased that the fact has been recognized that Yale does...
...meeting of the foot-ball men of the college, called yesterday for the purpose of electing a captain for the university team, no candidate was elected, no one receiving a majority of the votes cast. A second meeting will be held Thursday, at which, it is hoped, an election will be effected. All the men entitled to vote should remember that the election is for the interests of the college as a whole; that no partisan or class spirit should prevail, but that clique interests should give way to a unanimity characteristic of the general interest at stake...
...exchanges we notice a discussion on the "Movability of Students," which is so much opposed to our own ideas on the subject that we must give it more than passing notice. The writer says: "A movement for exchanging professors in American colleges has recently been set on foot. Much would undoubtedly be gained by such an arrangement. Not only would the students, in a far greater degree than now, be accustomed to independent judgment; but their views on any subject would be broadened and their tolerance of other people's opinions would be increased by listening to lectures by different...
Princeton and Yale both cordially welcome Harvard back again into the foot-ball league. The Princetonian and News express almost as much satisfaction with the recent action of our faculty as characterizes the most jubilant Harvardian. These courteous greetings are expressive of a generous rivalry that speaks well for the contest next fall...