Word: standing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...only safeguard of the Yale management; its technical declared void, common justice, not to mention the agreement of Messrs Gill and Beecher last year, would leave but one course open to Yale. But with the constitution to back her, she can with some show of right, take the stand she has. Whatever the outcome of the struggle may be, Harvard will have learned one lesson at least-that in dealings with some institutions, official declarations recognized as binding, are far better than mere promises whose fulfilment rests on such a frail thing as a "sense of honor...
...Thanksgiving day. Yale has not only not offered to play anywhere else,-Cambridge, New Haven or any other place-but insists that the Harvard team must meet the Yale eleven at New York on Thanksgiving or the game will be forfeited to Yale. The Yale management has taken this stand with the full knowledge that the Harvard team will be unable to play at the time and place scheduled on account of the interdict of the Athletic Committee; and either vainly hopes (which is not likely) that this interdict will be withdrawn, or else boldly declares the intention...
Dear Sir-Yale has had sufficient time now to make good her representations of last year, and it is time for Harvard to take a decided stand. We regret that it has been from our side, though not our fault, that this discussion might not have been brought up and settled earlier. Now, however, considering the circumstances under which the game was played last year in New York instead of in New Haven where it was originally arranged, we will state once and for all that we will play Yale this year in Cambridge on Thanksgiving day, and then...
...tickets for the Fall River boat Friday night, and for the grand stand at Princeton are now on sale at Leavitt and Pierce's. Berths on the boat can also be obtained there...
...Princeton men are making great preparations for the pending football game with Harvard. A new grand stand has been erected, 320 feet long, which will hold 4000 people. A special train will leave New York at 12 o'clock arriving at Princeton at 2, and returning at 5 p. m. The 9 o'clock express from New York, will also stop at Princeton. The game is to be advertised in New York, Newark, New Brunswick. Philadelphia, and many other smaller cities...