Word: intere
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Spirit of the Times offers a prize of a year's subscription to any one who will satisfactorily explain the resolutions adopted at the Inter-Collegiate Foot-ball Convention...
First, that the Princeton-Yale football game must be played at the time and place distinctly named by the inter-collegiate convention; namely, in Princeton on Thanksgiving...
Besides, such articles are always made, as everybody outside of Yale admits, with some slight underlying reference to College Trustees and Faculties. Yale may "boss" her Faculty: other colleges have not yet got quite so far, as witness the entire suspension of Inter collegiate foot-ball at Harvard last year. In view of Yale's course last year and this year, to indict us for failure in an impossible effort to induce our Trustees and Faculty to gratify Yale in the revival of a rule in whose suspension Yale herself acquiesced willingly enough last year, is just a little...
...hoped that the present querulous attitude of Yale will soon give place to one dictated by straightforward judgement, and that on Thursday she will present her eleven at Princeton to compete with the champion team. If she does not, it is gratifying to know that the Inter-collegiate Association will bestow the championship of '89 where it will then belong. We wish that it could quiet once for all the babbling that will inevitably begin on the day after Thanksgiving...
...almost threadbare subject of the freshman eleven. Our correspondent has spoken earnestly and with fearlessness. We can do no better than to voice the sentiments which are evidently the cause of his writing to us. The disgrace to the college of having men who are in training for an inter-collegiate contest participate in the early morning festivities subsequent to the ball in question cannot be passed over in silence. The performances of the men who are trying for positions on the freshman eleven when regarded as a class - there are notable exceptions - have been such as to merit contempt...