Word: regarded
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...undergraduate rule as proposed by Yale. It is a significant point that whereas a two-thirds vote was necessary to pass the amendment, the two thirds vote was cast against it. This action shows clearly the position which the large majority of colleges represented at the meeting, take in regard to this question. Harvard, with the others, placed herself on record as opposed to the rule, but not because she was opposed to reform. She simply believes that, in the heat of enthusiasm, Yale was indiscreet in attempting to narrow her athletics down to a college basis; and this feeling...
...course the most important question was in regard to the undergraduate rule which was proposed by Yale. Harvard's position on the rule was plainly shown by the fact that although her representatives voted against it, they proposed a rule for next year which it is believed will accomplish the result aimed at by Yale. The action of the meeting shows that Yale, in addition to having questionable support for the rule in her own college, has practically none at all among the other colleges. To carry the amendment required a two-thirds majority and there was really...
...first business brought up was in regard to giving a record medal to Brewster of Yale for the two-mile bicycle race at Manhattan Field last year, it being held that the record was made on a pneumatic tire wheel. It was decided to give a record medal...
...regard to Yale's undergraduate rule, C. H. Sherrill spoke strongly in favor of it, asserting that it would hurt Yale as much as any other college. J. P. Lee suggested that the rules should be amended so as to provide that a man should not be allowed to compete until he had been in college a year The question of adopting the rule was then put to vote with the following result...
...refusal to play Harvard or the University of Pennsylvania except on a strictly undergraduate basis, Princeton has set forth clearly her position in regard to collegiate athletics. By her action she indirectly states that the odds of a university team against a college team are too heavy for her to bear, or, at the least, that she does not care to compete with any but strictly college teams. Princeton has thus lowered her athletics from a university to a college standard. If she persists in her present attitude, she must expect that, in rating her, it will be according...