Word: letterings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Boston Post of yesterday contained a long letter from John Codman 2d, on the foot ball controversy. We quote the most pertinent passages...
...regard to the question of withdrawing from the Intercollegiate Foot Ball Association. S. Dexter, 1st, '90. called the meeting to order at 8 p. m., sharp. and Captain Cumnock proceeded at once to state the reasons for which the meeting had been called, using as a text a letter from Mr. Francis M. Weld '60. The scope of the letter was that Harvard should take some stand against professionalism, and after the letter had been read the subject was thrown open for discussion. Honore '88, moved that Harvard offer to Yale to form a dual league in football. The motion...
...sentiment expressed in the first part of the Princeton letter published today is obviously so unfair as to need little comment, and yet it may be well for us to state the case as it actually is. There is now a genuine and laudable effort making to exclude professionalism from college athletics. As a first step in this movement it has seemed necessary that all the colleges in the league be required to furnish certificates that the members of their athletic teams are bona fide members of their college. In accordance with this rule Harvard has sent to Princeton...
...receipt of the following letter from Dr. Lyman Abbott which we wish to commend to the attention of the students...
...movers of these resolutions for Harvard. The resolutions are in substance what the Athletic committee has been introducing here little by little, and which guided the freshman game last year between Harvard and Yale. As another proof that Harvard was at the bottom of them, Mr. Holden received a letter from Mr. Bolles certifying that the following men were of regular standing...