Word: harvardism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ball, and present reader of your paper, what ground you have for the assertion you make in your issue of the 26th inst., that "for years it (a dual league) has been talked of and considered the final solution of all difficulties? " Has not this talk been confined to Harvard, and if so is it not worse than useless? Yale has complete control in the matter, as she is wanted by all parties. When she submits to us a proposition for a dual league, it will be well enough to consider the matter. But to do so now surely puts...
...college in attributing our agitation against semi-professional graduate players to our defeat. He shows that he is not up in the facts. The movement was well under way, as your readers most of them know, long before the Princeton game. The credit of it belongs to Harvard, and I fancy if we here at Cambridge were to inquire into its beginnings, we should have to admit that our faculty and their committee started the movement in the strictures they imposed on the members of our team and those wishing to be members. Now we are going to put this...
...Princeton will accept the standard now proposed by Harvard, nothing has been done as yet to prevent games with her in the future; if, however, as now seems most probable, she insists in imputing false motives to us and in refusing to help raise the tone of college athletics we shall be justified in refusing to compete again with her. The least our graduate friends can do is to give us the credit of honorable intentions even if they cannot agree with our methods...
Yale has defeated Harvard of late years but the reason is not apparent. We have more students than Yale and ought to put as good teams on the field. If our defeats are due to unscrupulousness on Yale's part, we must not complain, provided we have used the same means but not as successfully. All Harvard men naturally would like to see Harvard first in athletics, but victory must not be bought by a sacrifice of honor. Harvard students must remember that the object of this college is to fit men for the positions they will occupy in after...
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...