Word: statement
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Testimony to the value and beneficial influence of college athletics, in view of recent discussions and a tendency of opposition to them that is shown in some quarters at the present time, is particularly valuable. The following statement of President Barnard of Columbia is positive and satisfactory and will go a good way in silencing the trivial objections of some eager reformers...
YALE.The stand taken by the Courant is eminently sensible, and its statement of the reasons for the proposed move are, we think, the best yet made. It hopes that owing to the fact that considerable money has already been expended at Amherst and Dartmouth for next year's nines, the usual games will be played with those colleges this year. "It is thought," it says, "that by restricting the league to Harvard, Brown, Princeton and Yale, much more interesting and well-attended games will result. And if each nine plays a series of three games with each other nine...
...sincerity can deny, and we thank it for speaking so plainly and boldly on this important question. "To compel men to affect a semblance of religion which has no correspondence in their hearts, is an outrage on the men concerned and on all true religion," is a statement, the truth of which, is self-evident, and the sentiment of which, we believe, is that of every undergraduate of Harvard whatever his creed. It is an "outrage," and should be called by no milder name, that these blue-laws are in force at the foremost university of America. All this nobody...
Thus it will be seen that absolutely nothing has been done, which warrants the statement that Harvard intends withdrawing from the league, beyond opening a discussion as to the advisability of such a step...
...Pall Mall Gazette is authority for the statement that Mr. Gladstone has resigned the English Chancellorship of the Exchequer, and that the Right Hon. Hugh C. Childers has been appointed to succeed...