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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...well known, the eleven leaves this afternoon for Springfield to play their last game for the season. The task which they have before them is no easy one. Yale is sure to put an excellent team in the field, and victory, if we win, will be hard earned. These facts, however, should only make us the more resolute; and that our team may feel encouraged we must make up our minds to continue in every way the hearty support which we have thus far given them. There is no surer way to urge them to victory than by showing them...
...this was that the question of reforming the church was becoming political. When Luther left the Diet of Worms the heart of the people went with him. Princes, cities, and peasantry all took up the new teaching. But there was no united national feeling, and the struggles of first one class and then another for freedom ended in nothing. All the sadder was this sixteenth century because even the great man who had called the struggle of faith against dogma into being was himself led away by the strong force of circumstances from the ideas of his early manhood...
...favor of a dual league, the details of that league are of too considerable importance to be settled at once. The provision that any action of the football board, to whom the question was entrusted, shall be subject to the ratification of the college is, therefore, a wise one. When the preliminaries of a dual league are settled, it will then be time for the college to take definite action...
...after the letter had been read the subject was thrown open for discussion. Honore '88, moved that Harvard offer to Yale to form a dual league in football. The motion upon being seconded, was fully discussed by speakers from the floor, and Mr. Hooper '80, read two letters, one from Mr. Robert Bacon, of Boston, the other from Mr. Wetmore, of New York, both overseers. The writers of these letters state that they are in favor of a dual league, but that the time chosen for action is not opportune. A committee should be appointed to consider the question fully...
...stand. The position of some of the graduates, that the time was not opportune for a withdrawal was attacked on the grounds that delay would do no good; a withdrawal would still seem to be a revenge for a defeat and the subject was really so old a one that no one could call a withdrawal at the present time a hasty poorly-considered step...