Word: honorable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...detachment of Battery A, of Boston, at the instigation of the ward and city committee, fired a salute, last night on Cambridge common, in honor of the victory of Harrison and Morton...
...York instead of in New Haven where it was originally arranged, we will state once and for all that we will play Yale this year in Cambridge on Thanksgiving day, and then and there only. We hope you will see the justice of this demand, and that Yale's honor will not permit her to do otherwise than accept. We await an early reply. We remain very respectfully yours...
...discussion of the Yale-Harvard foot-ball game should have been started in the daily press. It has been our aim to confine all such discussions, as far as possible, to the managers of the respective teams. But charges have been made against the managers of our team which honor compels us to refute. It is evident that Yale entirely misunderstands our position in the matter; therefore, in order to clear up all such misunderstanding, we will proceed to examine the facts of the case...
...conclusion is plain enough. Since Harvard only agreed to play in New York last year because she relied on Captain Beecher's agreement to consider the game as equivalent to one played in New Haven, therefore, as Harvard cannot play in New York this year, Yale's honor, if nothing else, demands that she should play in Cambridge...
...coincide with the sons' resolution to avoid Harvard as that such a fact has caused the sons so to decide. Whatever of luxury and extravagance exists at Harvard is closely connected with her fall in athletic spirit. Ten years ago, before the college was so continuously beaten, the honor of a position on the University team was sought after by every man of a class, college popularity being greatly dependent on the prowess of the bat and oar. So long as the positions were desirable, it was natural for them to be filled by men whose families had wealth...