Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...would condescend to play with Harvard at all, while to be shut up to the minor New England colleges would be intolerable to Harvard. The Overseers are therefore accused of seeking indirectly the end which they affect to repudiate. The CRIMSON hints at rebellion; but most significant is its remark that "such a radical change in the whole athletic system would, we firmly believe, put the axe to the roots of our social system as well." No observer of the relation between "society," wealth, and extravagance and athletics at Harvard can doubt the truth of this...
...custody into which it passed so soon as the ink of the signatures to it was dry, and in which, I may add, it will remain so long as it shall endure. Custody is a point the supreme importance of which will be recognized without the need of further remark from me. Thanks to permission courteously given, a facsimile of the full size of the original-some 17 in, by 20 in.- and in the very best style, is now being executed, copies of which will very shortly be procurable...
...capacity to succeed, if she only takes the trouble, has been afforded. At the opening of the term we mentioned the well-worn saying, "Oh! they don't know how to play foot-ball at Harvard!" and joined our entreaties to those of the college that this trite remark might become as pathetic in its application as that satire, "Yale men say." Our hopes have been fulfilled, and Harvard has taken its place among the first of the contestants in the foot-ball arena...
...CRIMSON commented the other day on a remark which was unfortunately not unique-that Harvard ought to have some paper that would bear comparison with the Yale Lit, whereas we have two that yield to it in no respect-the Monthly and the Advocate...
...wish to speak a few words for the Harvard Monthly. A certain member of this University was heard to remark a few days ago, "Why don't we have a paper here as good as the Yale Lit?" Now, it was either that distance lended the speaker enchantment, or else he had never perused the Harvard Monthly with scholarly care, for if he had done so he would never have compared it unfavorably with the literary paper at Yale. There are many men here who might have made the same remark. Before they jump at conclusions, it might be wise...