Word: moment
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Harvard athletics and as such is bound to be subjected to a deal of conflicting criticism. Before discussing, however, the probable effect of the committee's vote or the immediate bearing which the present condition of our athletics may have had upon their action, we wish for a moment to call the attention of our readers to the historical aspect of the question, believing that a large minority of Harvard men are, to say the least, very imperfectly informed in regard to this. Early in April, 1888, a committee of the Overseers was appointed to consider the question of intercollegiate...
...effects of the committee's action which will be mainly criticized. Let us, then, for a moment, consider these. The direct result of the new regulation will be that Harvard will withdraw from the base ball league this year and from the Mott Haven games next season. Unless a dual league is formed, therefore, we will be out of all systematized intercollegiate athletics, since in view of the new regulation Princeton will hardly propose a triple league. But after all, what of this? Hardly such dire results, we believe, as some fear. Harvard certainly has never been in so favorable...