Word: respectable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...crew, and are the most faithful set of men in training I have ever handled. Harvard has a great advantage over us in her professional coach, her strong, trusting support and the experience she gets from the practice pulls with professional crews. We shall try to make a respectable showing in July, and will do the best we can. Whatever secrecy has been observed in respect to the crew has been for the purpose of not assisting in our own defeat by giving our opponents the information of our doings. That is the reason why any secrecy...
...Yale will probably in any event be prohibited for playing ball next year, is without foundation. If Yale should no longer be allowed to enter the contest, there is little doubt that much of the interest which now attends the games would be wanting. We cannot see in what respect the inter-collegiate contests are detrimental to the welfare of Yale, notwithstanding the claims of Professor Richards. These contests certainly foster an espirt de corps which could not possibly be attained by any other means. Much is said each year concerning the loss to study which athletics involve, and little...
...outcome of it was the best 'varsity crew that Yale had ever put upon the water. In spite of all these reports of the Yale crew being exceptionally poor at the present time, early in April many eminent boating authorities predicted an exceptionally good crew in every respect. Even with such a crew as Harvard has, we will be greatly mistaken if both races which are to be rowed at New London this year are not as stubbornly contested as any which have ever been rowed. "Cave canem," as the Italians used jocosely to remark; which freely translated means, Beware...
...connection with the celebration of last Monday night, there was one instance of puerility which we cannot pass over in silence. We allude to the insult offered one of the most respected officials of the college by a crowd of men who collected underneath his window and amused themselves by throwing firecrackers and torpedoes against the panes. Such childishness is not to be tolerated at Harvard; and childishness is a mild term for such ungentlemanly conduct. We are glad to say that student opinion condemns all nonsense of this kind, and we trust that in future celebrations, no amount...
...conclusion, I may say I have the deepest respect for the gentleman with whom I have the honor to differ. But I also respect my classmates too much to hear them accused in silence...