Word: reasons
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...annual bicycle race is desirable, especially at this time, for other reasons besides the general benefit it would give both colleges in increasing the interest in a healthy and desirable out-door sport. In addition to this it would strengthen the inducements for a dual league. At this time when the sentiment of both colleges seems to be steadily growing in support of a dual league, a favorable answer to the Bicycle club's challenge would be another step toward attaining the desired end. It would add another bond to the common athletic interests of both colleges. If the principle...
...parties concerned without outside interference. It seems that the entire business responsibility of the concert was put into the hands of the Glee Club with the proviso that the financial proceeds should be afterwards divided among the clubs. If this agreement had been carried out within a reasonable time, the members of the Pierian Sodality would have no cause for complaint; but although almost a month and a half has passed by, no part of the receipts has been handed over from the treasurer of the Glee Club to the above mentioned organization. This negligence on the part...
...Yale and Harvard. Since that time it has been the work of several men to look carefully into the matter, and to find accurate figures which represent the past and present representation in numbers at Harvard and Yale. This has been an undertaking of considerable magnitude and for that reason the men interested have allowed the matter to run until the present issue when it is thought that data accurate and sufficient have been found to disprove the position taken by the writer of the Advocate's communication of four weeks...
...than 458, only 20.6 per cent. of the same number. Errors such as these are fundamental, and no argument can proceed on tables so compiled. We have not had time to go over the figures which the Advocate correspondent gives for Yale in 1889 90 but we have no reason, after such a display of ignorance of the elements of arithmetic, to suppose them correct...
...larger than in '79-80. In some cases the gain has been wonderful. Yale had many men in the West when Harvard had none; since then Harvard has been quite steadily gaining, and never with greater rapidity than in the last decade. Surely Harvard men have no reason to feel discouraged, and Yale men no reason for boasting...