Word: standing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...pleasure a communication taking exception to one of our recent editorials. We anticipated a difference of opinion between us and some of our readers, when we inserted the editorial referred to. Giving the arguments our correspondent has cited all the weight they contain, we would state firmly that our stand is still unshaken. Our position was well considered before it was taken, and we see, as yet, no cause for retracting a single statement we made. Care needs to be taken by our opponents, as to just what points we have maintained. We do not object to boxing. Indeed...
...Princetonian says of the position Harvard has been taking in regard to foot-ball, that "the Harvard faculty might better have allowed the Harvard undergraduates to stand by the ship, and have done Harvard's share in raising the standard of the sport, rather than to temporarily desert and leave Yale and Princeton to overcome the difficulties present and prepare everything for Harvard's safe return...
...politician and writer, has purchased a large interest in the Advertiser, and will hence-forth, presumedly, have much to do in shaping its policy. We can but congratulate Professor Dunbar as he retires, and the college at large, for the credit reflected directly and indirectly by the high journalistic stand to which this paper has been brought. The energy for which Mr. Lodge is famous, governed by the cautious temper which he must inherit from the former management, promise a vigorous future for this paper...
...prominent financier or able business man would do much to gratify a widespread interest in college. Active legislators are prone to sneer at college theorists and their ideas. Why not invite a representative of this school of the world to attempt to correct these ideas. Two lectures from different stand points on this very silver question would shake the two schools together, and might increase the respect of one for the other...
...very glad to have the Advocate define her position in regard to the Conference Committee, and we stand shoulder to shoulder with her in the views expressed in the last issue. If our former criticism was unjust, it was due to the interpretation we placed on the editorial in the sixth number, and our zeal to see the Conference Committee meet with fair play in the college press...