Word: regarded
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...seems, then, to be generally allowed that an agreement upon certain nominations is absolutely necessary to a satisfactory election, and the only dispute is in regard to the manner in which these nominations are to be made, - whether by regularly organized bodies, or by knots of individuals hastily gathered together for the purpose...
THERE are two ways of looking at the part which the graduates have lately played in regard to our connection with the Rowing Association. For the interest they showed in our boating affairs and for the advice which they gave us, they are entitled to thanks. It is due to them, we may say entirely, that we have decided to row at Saratoga next summer, and because we have adopted this course we are pronounced by the outside world to have acted in a fair and straightforward manner. If we had severed immediately our connection with the Association, we should...
...Yale papers publish a great deal of matter in regard to the withdrawal of their college from the Rowing Association. They repeat the old arguments about the inconvenience of a race in which so many contestants participate, and they expressly declare that Yale's desire is to try her strength with Harvard, and with Harvard alone...
...action in regard to the "Intercollegiate Literary Association" might be pronounced, and, no doubt, has been pronounced, an assertion of our mightiness and our contempt for what amuses the ??? of the college world. We refused in the beginning to have anything to do with it, and we have since gazed down from our eminence with placid enjoyment upon the eager struggle for the wreaths which crown the finest orator, the best writer, and the champions in Greek and mathematics. We have never said, in so many words, that we were too big for such amusements; but that is what...
...present we are in a peculiar situation in regard to these colleges. We have found, by a rather unpleasant experience, that our interests in boating matters are not identical with theirs, and we have taken what I consider a most wise course, in announcing our intention of dissolving our connection with them. This seems to me the policy which will of necessity be adopted in future. It is the only way in which we can avoid the unpleasantness sure to arise when we attempt to pull together and find by experience the difference in our interests...