Word: respect
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...They are both more thoroughly cosmopolitan than men from other colleges. They come from all ranks of society, and from all sections of the country. They are prepared side by side in the same schools. For these and many other reasons, then, Harvard men and Yale men know and respect each other, and are natural friends and rivals. We hope that this game will be the entering wedge to a still more intimate relationship than the two institutions have enjoyed in the past...
...football team has now reached its culminating point and satisfactory results have been obtained in one respect, the 'Varsity and substitutes will come to the game with no injuries that will cause anxiety as to their ability to last through the game except in one or two cases. The team has shown gradual and steady improvement and should show its best form Saturday...
...Some methods of making money are forbidden by law and called dishonesty. Others are forbidden by common decency and are called dishonorable. Those who have utilized the football game for business purposes may class their transactions in the second category, but on the whole to a man of self respect there is not a great difference. However one may look at it, it is dirty behavior...
With the most sincere respect for the point of view taken by the writers of these letters, we think that their alarm is a little unnecessary, and that they misinterpret the spirit in which the song was written and published. They read between the lines a combination of ill-timed overconfidence, and viciousness toward Yale. We know that the verses in question, as a matter of fact, gave voice to neither the one nor the other. We feel confident moreover that they were not so understood by undergraduates here, and that if noticed at all by Yale men, which...
...very properly held as final. Above all, the only channel through which a remonstrance can with propriety go, is the captain or the coaches. But it is surely superfluous to discuss details of etiquette at football games. Harvard men have always taken a peculiar pride in maintaining their self-respect by courteous treatment of adversaries, and by a reluctance to question any official decision. On Saturday, however, the crowd forgot itself to an unaccountable extent and certainly passed far beyond the bounds of self-control and dignity...