Word: liking
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...general indignation excited by the mismanagement in distributing seats for the Yale game has brought to light some points in the existing system of giving out tickets which I should like to call attention to in your columns if I may have space. The management has evidently considered that men who work or sweat for Harvard are entitled to receive favors: for that they are doing more than giving football players good seats for their families or intimate friends is painfully plain to all of us. But in acting up to this belief the management has either discriminated most unfairly...
...borne such bad fruits this year is wrong. A man who plays in a game ought to have tickets enough for the people whom he wishes to have come to see him play. But surely this is all. Harvard undergraduate organizations are not commercial in spirit, nor are they like those in a political ward. The men who deserve favors at the hands of the College are those who would be the last to demand them, especially if they knew them to be granted at the cost of most of the loyal supporters of their College. Even the New York...
...line, in the Yale stand. I am not alone; there are a thousand other Harvard undergraduates who are in a similar position. Certainly it seems to me that with nearly ten thousand seats in the Harvard stand, there should be room for twenty-five hundred undergraduates. Who, I should like to know, has a better right to sit in the Harvard stand than the Harvard undergraduate? Is it right that he should be given a miserable seat in the Yale stand, unable to see the game, unable to cheer for his College, when thousands of outsiders...
...drawings, the cover-piece alone shows an artistic touch; but, unfortunately, it is scarcely original. Representing a "lone couple" sitting on a sand dune and gazing fixedly on the open sea, it looks like a crude copy of Gibson's "Solitude." The centre picture is intended as a caricature on the recent yacht race, but is neither clever in design nor amusing in point...
...smaller and the meetings were held in the basement of University Hall. In the growth of the society with the University there is great encouragement. The danger that exists from over-development of the intellectual faculties to the exclusion of religion can be successfully met by engaging a work like that which the St. Paul's Society provides...