Word: reasons
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...some reason the Advocate saw fit to quote but one sentence from our editorial, and to interpret the rest in her own words. Since that interpretation is entirely misleading, we beg to repeat the passage which inspired it: "The best policy seems to be to take what we can get. If the restaurant scheme succeeds, the University will be so much the better for it; if it fails, it will be nobody's loss but the Corporation's. With a building already erected, the present scheme, if unsatisfactory may be altered until it meets all requirements." It seems...
Your favor of April 25th is at hand. As we understand your position you object to a possible third game after Commencement Day because it is difficult to keep your players together after the close of the academic year. This does not seem to us a sufficient reason for declining our proposal...
...have chosen for the New Haven game. But, on the other hand, since it is your selection of so late a date as Tuesday, June 27th, that throws the possible tie game into the vacation, it does not seem to us just for you to make that selection a reason for declining to play off the tie in the manner customary among sportsmen...
...correspondence between Harvard and Yale relative to a third game is published in another column. A careful reading of the letters brings out prominently three main points. In the first place Yale is unwilling to arrange for a tie game unless it can be played before there is any reason to believe that it is necessary. Moreover, she shows no intention or wish whatever to meet Harvard half-way to effect a compromise. Her policy is clearly independent, if not indifrent. Opposed to Yale's position is Harvard's request that a third game, if necessary, shall be played, when...
...when the committee reached this conclusion. If the committee is right, however, the hall, by the terms of the circular will not be run on this scheme, so if it is as "perfectly sure" as it says it is, it need not have spent time protesting. Its only given reason, however, is fallacious. It is no argument to cite the fact that two months before the close of college the Foxcroft has no waiting list. As well say we need no more dormitories because rooms cannot be let at this time. At the begining of the year the Foxcroft...