Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Winslow, '85, was then introduced. After some witty remarks, he gave his theory for Yale's success that their faculty, graduates, and undergraduates pulled together, while at Harvard they pulled apart. Harvard is in need of experienced and interested men to give advice in athletics. Captains need them to help them manage the teams. They also need the moral support of the college, and this is what the dinner has helped to give more than any event for many years. With more cheering and "Fair Harvard" by the Glee club, the dinner was brought to a successful close...
...entered into the scheme, and the return for the money would more than repay the outlay. If anything is to be done towards obtaining a slide this year, it should be done at once before the snow covers the ground. I hope that all men interested in tobogganing will help to carry out this suggestion, and thus to secure for the college a beautiful and delightful winter sport...
...wrong, but as a graduate of Harvard, a former member of university teams, a friend to Princeton and fair play, I feel I have the right to voice the sentiment and questioning of many men of Harvard, who, with the stories and facts as now presented, cannot help feeling that the smart of defeat, despite protests to the contrary, has had undue influence in the attack on Princeton. I have, I regret to say, played on Harvard teams when I blushed at the unfair play of the men next to me on the Harvard side, and if the attempt...
...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...
...close of the war a great amount of army woolens was foreed upon the market, and a natural depression in the woolen trade followed. Business men could not suddenly comprehend the cause of the situation. They sought help from the government, and a tariff more stringent than any of its predecessors-the tariff of 1868, was enacted. That tariff is now twenty-two years old, and as a wool dealer, Mr. Garrison did not hesitate to affirm that it is a disappointment...