Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...candidates for the Eleven about whom any doubt was felt were sharply inquired about. The cases of five among thirty-one candidates were thus specially investigated. All of these five gentle men were and are "bona fide students on the rolls" of the University; against four of them efficient protest was lodged by this Committee or some other authority of the University; so that only one of them played in the games against Princeton and Yale...
...these cases do we consider the acceptance of money a reflection upon the character of these gentlemen; but we believe it a very serious detriment to amateur and to college sports that men who have voluntarily assumed the status of professionals should be received upon college teams. Since no protest against the reception of these men from within their own college has been made public, we feel that a different opinion prevails at Princeton...
...Advocate's ringing eloquence and inspiring rhetoric is usually invoked in the cause of more board walks in the yard, or in protest at the manner of scattering the fertilizer over the grass, or in piteous appeals to be protected by the authorities from the muckers who assemble in the rectangle and throw out doubtful compliments to the editors as they walk along. Occasionally, also, the Advocate informs the eleven or the nine that if they can play well enough they will win, provided they don't get over confident; and tells the captain of the lacrosse team that...
DEAR SIRS.- As a member of the university, I wish to enter an earnest protest against the team which has marked the recent utterances of the Advocate on the subject of our athletics. The latest and worst example of the views to which I refer is to be found in the first editorial of the issue of December 13th. By those who are not on the spot and who may therefore think that the Advocate represents to some extent, college sentiment, this will perhaps be taken as an expression of undergraduate opinion-and it is deplorable that it should...
...first in athletics, but victory must not be bought by a sacrifice of honor. Harvard students must remember that the object of this college is to fit men for the positions they will occupy in after life; they should condemn disgraceful acts in athletic contests, but they should not protest when it can be said that they too are guilty, or when their object in protesting seems equivocal...