Word: letting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Let the committee, instead of trying to prohibit the game, consult with those among us who understand the game of foot ball, as to what changes in the rules will do away with the "brutal" part of the game, (for, as Prof. Byerly has said, and he probably voices the opinion of the other members of the Committee, the dangerous element of the game is the least objectionable, especially since that would be greatly done away with, if the "brutal" element were eliminated.) Let us then have a chance to make the necessary changes in the rules at the convention...
...hoped for, -this argument, I say, is childish and worthless. For, in the first place, the students now are much better able to judge what changes are needed, and, secondly, changes which last year were almost universally opposed by the students, would this year meet with almost unanimous approval. Let it be remembered, however, that the reason of this opposition last year was not so much because we were unwilling to see changes made in the rules, as because we were unwilling to submit to what seemed to us an arrogant and high-handed proceeding on the part...
...energy should be shown by their half hearted management. The question at issue is one of life or death to the interests of the Harvard Foot Ball Association, and yet such a crisis, the gentlemen in whom this trust has been placed, calmly sit in their rooms and quietly let things take their course, or in other words, they let other men fight their battles for them. At the conference last Monday night, a time at which every effort should have been made for the retention of foot ball, not a single director or officer of the association was present...
...however to attract our attention will be the reservoir, which is confidently close to the college buildings. The swimming tank which so many Harvard men have longed for in Cambridge is here provided by civil authority for the benefit of the Tufts men. As we walk about the reservoir, let us take in the view. Look down into the valley of the Mystic, look beyond toward the Middlesex Fells, look back to old Cambridge and see the lofty tower of Memorial Hall looming above everything else. When it is once seen, we feel at home. What a grand old landmark...
Such are some of the pleasant and interesting walks about Cambridge. I might mention more, but why enumerate longer? Cambridge is inexhaustible-nearly every street leading to something worth seeing. Let the pedestrian only be observant and study the houses, and whatever else he may see, and he will find Cambridge no dull place. Indeed, belonging, as Cambridge does half to this, half to the last century, but few more interesting cities are to be found in this country...