Word: joining
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...case other colleges should join with Harvard in adopting these rules such disqualification shall not be removed without the consent of a majority of the said colleges...
Were it not that our correspondent Nauseatus seems to have been suffering from his own malady at the time of his writing we should be inclined to agree with him in the opinion he has expressed. We cannot, however, join him in the uncharitable attitude which he has assumed toward good old Mother Advocate. If she be in error she need not be denounced as imbecile. Yet with all due deference to her we believe she is mistaken. Whatever may have been her intention, she has not fairly represented Harvard's attitude toward her own withdrawal from the foot ball...
...desired end was to withdraw unconditionally from the football league. Objections to offering to form a dual league with Yale were raised and were answered by the argument that Harvard in her stand against professionalism should not refuse to accept the cooperation of the first college ready to join her in her stand. The position of some of the graduates, that the time was not opportune for a withdrawal was attacked on the grounds that delay would do no good; a withdrawal would still seem to be a revenge for a defeat and the subject was really...
Phillips Exeter and Phillips Andover academies have been asked to join an inter-academic athletic association formed by the Boston Athletic club to promote the athletic interests of the different New England preparatory schools...
...evil as it really is. But for a reformer to devote himself to all reforms would be a senseless task. He must choose some single thing which he thinks needs reforming and do his best to bring about the desired reform. He must not work alone, however; he must join a small body of men, who have the same objects in view, and their combined efforts are bound to bear good fruit. Behind these small bodies there must be clubs and associations ready to give aid and influence to the more active reformers...