Word: resentment
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...college is curiously divided on the foot ball question. In the first place, there are those who resent any interference in athletics whatever on the part of the faculty. They want Yale's policy adopted here. But our faculty has settled that question once for all by establishing the Athletic Committee, and those gentlemen may as well take Harvard as she is, or go to Yale. Next come those who think foot ball all right as it is, or think the convention would have made whatever improvement can and need be made. These are few in number...
...without progressing a single step, and is plucked at his matriculation for Latin prose, we flatter ourselves, forsooth, that we have been giving him the best means for learning Latin quotations, for improving taste (or what passes for such) for acquiring the niceties of Greek and Latin scholarship ! We resent the nickname of the 'Chinese of Europe,' yet our education offers the closest possible analogue to that which reigus in the Celestial Empire, and for centuries we have continued, and are continuing, a system to which (so far as I know) no other civilized nation attaches any importance, yet which...
...beings and can institute reforms if reforms be needed. The undergraduates of Harvard have already had a taste of indiscreet graduate interference in the matter of the disputed Colombia race and the dose, to say the least, was not palatable. In the same way the Yale seniors will probably resent any interference in their society system...
...paper in New Haven that many of the college men were in favor of sending a committee to confer with Harvard. At the meeting Monday the presiding officer asked if there were any present who entertained any such views, in order that they might be heard. The college generally resent such an imputation, and claim general unanimity in sentiment endorsing the letter of the advisory committee...
Whatever one's final opinion may be on the matter of Harvard's difficulty with Columbia, there is no one at Harvard, we feel assured, but will resent the slurs cast upon the name of Col. Bancroft for his conduct in the matter by the Columbia papers. Mr. Bancroft has long sustained an honorable connection with the college, both formerly as a student and captain of the University Eight, and latterly as coach of the same crew. His reputation in all his dealings with and for Harvard has always been fair and upright; and without further proof Harvard will...