Word: rightly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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President McCosh has written a letter to the newspapers in which he states his acceptance of the explanation given by Dr. Holmes, that only two lines of his poem relate to Princeton. "Dr. McCosh also acknowledges the favors shown by Harvard College," but maintains that he had the same "right to give expression to his feelings of indignation as Harvard had to withhold the recognition she gave to others...
...matter of a degree, and could expect nothing further. But the fact remains that on the occasion of an important anniversary the good-will shown so other institutions all about us was withheld from Princeton, which I was invited to represent. I acknowledge that Harvard had a right to bestow its honors where it choses, but, surrounded as I am by a body of professors carrying on an original research and printing their results for the public in books and periodicles, I thought it strange that no notice was taken of our college. I still feel that...
...game right through was a running game. For nearly twenty minutes Technology kept Harvard from scoring, the Tech. men having the ball in their possession fully half the time. Holden made the first touchdown from which Woodman kicked a goal. The ball came back to the Technology goal, and twice Harvard had the ball within the 15-yard line, but in each case three downs failed to carry the ball over the line, and it had to be taken back ten yards. The third attempt succeeded, and Porter made a touchdown. Another goal. Technology made a safety, and just before...
...teams lined up, it was evident that the Glee Club was heavier, and had more semi-professionals, or men who had played before, than the Pierian. Nothing daunted, the Pierian started in to win through superior skill. Unluckily the skill did not seem to show itself at the right time, or even at any time. When play was called, some good rushing by Faulkner carried the ball quite a way down the field, and a long kick took the ball almost to the Pierian goal-posts, and before the Pierians knew what was going on Lund had made a touchdown...
...been all these years. The men in the Columbia boat, at the Crocker House in New London, after the race last July, voiced the opinion of the class by asserting that they had never desired Yale in the course and hoped Harvard, as she had the right to decline or accept challenges by reason of her 1885 victory, would decline to have Yale enter...