Word: matter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...vista which time accords, and consequently cannot have the weight of immediate denial. Glad as we should be to consider the position of the News tenable, we cannot do so, nor can we unite with it in considering the reported words of the Yale captain as "a petty matter." At Harvard such a thing would be called not petty but gigantic boorishness...
...York. And now the Thursday issue of the CRIMSON once more devotes much space to this subject and to lamenting over the new rupture which that speech has made in our present friendly relations with Harvard. We have been reluctant to enter into a controversy upon this matter for the sake of that good feeling which we thought existed between Harvard and Yale, but whose growth we now learn has been "blasted." It was bad enough to have the words and sentiments of Mr. Beecher misquoted in the daily papers, but when it comes to the CRIMSON and Advocate making...
...idea which he did give was that he had trained his team to win in spite of all obstacles, even if the referee were one of them. If the Harvard papers have reached that state where they wish to stake their pleasant relations with Yale upon such a petty matter, we are truly sorry and can but express pity...
...manifest good which would result from contesting with our superiors, and gain nothing in return. We defeat the duffers at Marblehead twenty runs to two, and find in our games with Yale that there is danger of a similar score-only reversed. Agitation may effect something in this matter; silence surely cannot...
...unwise in forbidding all practice with professionals (in the proper sense of the word). We have in college a so-called "sporting element" which is really very deleterious to athletics. The point which Mr. Wendell makes here in regard to betting is a strong one-his position in the matter is undeniably the true one. Too much praise is no praise at all. But it is neither too much nor too little, to say that we have never read so thoroughly sensible and convincing an article on the much-talked about and much-written about subject of athletics...