Word: imbroglio
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Young Men Christian Union on Bovlston street, Boston, on "The Evils of the Professional Tendency of Amateur Athletics." This will afford a good opportunity of hearing what one of our athletic committee has to say on a much discussed subject. The lecture was prepared before the recent foot ball imbroglio...
...action of our faculty throughout the entire athletic imbroglio of the last two years, we do not hesitate to say, has been marked with a spirit of secrecy and exclusiveness, which in our opinion is highly inexpedient, as is shown well enough by the results such a policy has brought about. The matter has gone too far for further concealment and indulgence in indecisive diplomacy...
...await Yale's reply to all this with interest. The entire spectacle of all this Yale vs. Princeton and Harvard imbroglio, is perhaps not altogether edifying. Neither is a criminal trial in a court room edifying. Both, perhaps, are equally important for the prevalence of justice, and the purification of society...
Congress directs inquiries to be made into the official action in the Chili-Peru imbroglio...