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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Today's game between Harvard and Yale, the first since the fall of '94, has been a contest which meant far more to each side than the ordinary contests on the gridiron. Yale has been laboring with her proverbial grit against heavy disadvantages. The sympathies of all sportsmen have been with her in her efforts to maintain the magnificent record she has made in the past, by the exercise of those qualities which even her hereditary opponents cannot but admire and honor. Harvard, on the other hand, has strained every nerve to burst the chain of defeats which have been...
...apparent at first sight that this selling of application blanks is dishonorable, but nevertheless, dishonorable it is, under the circumstances, and the only excuse for the men who have done it, is that they did not realize what it meant. The whole object of the management has been to offer the seats at a reasonable price, and to restrict the sale to college men and their friends. The advantages are obvious, and it goes without saying that it is to the interest of college men as a class to enforce this policy strictly...
...chief function of the Athlelic Committee is to exercise guidance over contests in the field. By guidance is not meant an unfriendly interference with the games, but a kindly aid, with a firm development of athletics for the future. In the past, athletics have led to vicious practices and guidance became necessary...
...rejected for one office, stand for the next, is an argument that will have force with the candidate himself rather than with the club as a whole. That the postponement of the election for a few days will harmfully prolong the excitement can hardly have been seriously meant. That, after all, it is better that only those interested should vote, is a proposition the fallacy in which is evident when we consider the ambiguity of the word "interested...
...Yale men held that by the first half of the question the affirmative was required to defend a certain policy on the part of Congress; this policy, said the Yale speakers, would bring disaster. The Harvard men tried to make out that the first clause of the subject meant nothing in particular, and made no attempt to answer the argument based on the Yale interpretation. The judges, it seems, accepted the Yale construction, saw that the chief negative argument was unanswered, and decided accordingly...