Word: regretting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...should be swept away. We ask this not in a spirit which "gets an inch and wants an ell," but because we deem it to be essential to the best interests of our Nine. Should this second petition be granted, we think the committee will never have reason to regret its action...
DEAR SIR-We regret that the action of the Harvard faculty has prevented the meeting of the two teams this season, for as we replied to your letter, it was out of the question for Yale to keep a team together simply for the purpose of an exhibition game. We desire, however, to thank the Harvard management for their frank and generous acknowledgment of the forfeiture of their championship game, and we wish to take this occasion to assure them of Yale's hearty co-operation in any changes of the constitution rendered necessary by the action of the Harvard...
This afternoon we have the only opportunity of meeting any Yale team upon the foot-ball field. Much as we regret the necessary abandonment of the 'Varsity game, there is little use in "crying over spilled milk," especially as the fault of the spilling is not ours; so that it only remains for us now to nerve ourselves more surely for the present contest and to win, if winning is possible. The freshmen must play this afternoon with this in view. The game will be a game only by courtesy, in reality it will prove work. The freshman teams...
DEAR SIR.- Your note of this morning is at hand. By its terms Harvard is obliged to forfeit, and hereby does forfeit, the championship game previously scheduled for New York on Thanksgiving day. We regret that such is the case. Feeling, however, that the season of 1888 would be incomplete without a contest between Yale and Harvard, we therefore offer the following proposition...
Dear Sir-Yale has had sufficient time now to make good her representations of last year, and it is time for Harvard to take a decided stand. We regret that it has been from our side, though not our fault, that this discussion might not have been brought up and settled earlier. Now, however, considering the circumstances under which the game was played last year in New York instead of in New Haven where it was originally arranged, we will state once and for all that we will play Yale this year in Cambridge on Thanksgiving day, and then...