Word: quarreling
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...editorial in the current Spirit of the Times on the "Eternal Yale-Harvard Quarrel," however well intended, is certainly ill-advised. The very objection it urges against the journals of the two universities must be urged with double force against the Spirit itself. If its editor fears that the college journals will injure the colleges they represent by giving too much prominence to this so-called "eternal quarrel," how much more injury will these institutions receive from an editorial making such grave charges as does the one in the Spirit. The college journals are read for the main part...
...sincerely wish there might be some method of impressing the conviction upon the minds of the students at Yale that Harvard desires no quarrel with Yale, that her wishes are entirely peaceful, and that above all the general sentiment of this college strongly deprecates the useless and harmful bickering which unfortunately Yale, so far as it may be represented by the pugnacious News, seems inclined to resort to. Harvard simply believes that Yale played an unfair game in the late foot-ball contest, and one contrary to the spirit of the rules, and she will, we hope, insist that...
...doubt manifested by '86 in regard to accepting immediately the challenge of the Harvard freshmen. Nothing will have more power to cement the old time friendship of the colleges, and help to make them forget the late difficulty, than these races from which no danger of a quarrel or misunderstanding can ever be apprehended. [Columbia Spectator...
This is how the Spirit of the Times speaks of the matter: "Yale and Harvard are having the customary quarrel over their annual eight-oared race. This time it is about the date. As the difference is only one day, it would seem to be a matter quite capable of adjustment without bloodshed...
...domestic fowls, retiring early to rest. There is no day corresponding to Sunday, and only a few holidays in the year. Busily as they toil, these people are never in a hurry, are never nervous, and are not given to worrying; but are steady, cheerful, and sober. They rarely quarrel, and even if they do, seldom come to blows. There will be a little queue pulling, some calling of hard names, and then the bystanders will quietly separate the combatants. It is not physical timidity, but a sensitive consciousness of the disgrace of fighting, that keeps them from engaging...