Word: goode
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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DEAR SIR.- A majority of your college, as well as a good proportion of Harvard, seem to be opposed to a dual league, as matters now stand. But will not all be in favor of proposing to Princeton a close triple league, and accompanying this proposition with the definite threat of a dual league in case they decline. And of course Princeton would not decline. For they are especially sensitive about being classed among secondary colleges...
Princeton is a mighty good sort of a place, and they will go in for the thing once they are forced to. We have all been guilty in the past-Princeton perhaps least of all. I don't blame them so much. They found they had an unusual number of available graduates players, and they did what they think we have all been doing in persuading them to return for the foot ball season. The men are stuck there for the year, now, though...
...Letter by Mr. Finlay is a welcome contribution to the much discussed problem of Harvard's inferiority in athletics. Coming from one who has had such good opportunities to judge the situation on its true merits, the views expressed deserve careful consideration. The writer finds the solution of Yale's victories in the fact that "Yale has better men," and that where our rivals have not been physically superior, the discrepancy has been made up by excellent management. He thinks that the "talk about college loyalty in athletics is nonsense," that what we need is more love for athletic sports...
Pach Bros., photographer for Harvard have on exhibition some elegant large photographs just the thing for Christmas They are also getting up a new size which will be called the Harvard Panel a good sized head mounted on 11x14 card for framing or on a gilt beveled edged card 7x10. We propose making this size for $3.00, regular price $6.00. This is for Xmas and only to Harvard men. PACH...
...Brooks then addressed the meeting at length. He dwelt upon the difficulty which a university offers of forming large circles of acquaintances; men tend to collect into small groups and there by to live narrow lives destroying the great democratic spirit which ought to exist. It keeps what is good in men where its influence cannot be felt and makes it impossible to approach what is bad. He urged men not to allow themselves to get bound by any narrow set of laws, but to try to make their lives felt in as wide a circle as possible. Moreover...