Word: harvardism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Codman then asks several questions about the alleged brutality of Princeton's play, with many unjust comments on Harvard's attitude...
...first half of the Princeton-Harvard game it was an even thing-the sky was blue, the sun shone, the Harvard cannon boomed and everything was lovely-everybody was happy and cried, "The finest game of foot ball ever seen!" The second half, the sky clouds and lowers, the sun disappears the cannon ceases to boom, and the complaints of slugging, unfair play, and Ames resound and increase with Princeton's score, till at the close Princeton is pronounced a brute, a knave, a liar. The Princeton players were, heavier men and older men than Harvard and could stand...
...spring this alliance of the "fox and goose" on the university? The answer is, 'To take advantage of the ill-feeling excited by the Princeton game to get rid of Princeton.' Why not have done this in a straightforward deliberate way, if it is desired by both Harvard and Yale. Surely they are not bound in any way. Harvard, it is conceded, has been generally outwitted by Yale in council as well as in the field, and we read this morning that Yale is showing her love for her new friend and quondam enemy by quite as many men ruled...
...next number of the Lampoon will be issued on Monday, December 2, instead of tomorrow. The regular weekly meeting of the Harvard Shooting club will be omitted this week...
...Codman's letter on the foot ball controversy contains some criticisms of Harvard's recent action which are undoubtedly just, yet as a whole the spirit and tone of his remarks show such a misunderstanding of our present attitude that a formal reply seems necessary...