Word: statement
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...account of the Princeton baseball game published in this morning's CRIMSON there is a statement that "the opposing coach was in the diamond" at a very critical point in the game, "without a protest on the part of the Harvard captain." Now it is perfectly well understood that a graduate coach has no right whatever to be on the diamond or coaching lines during a game; and I understand from one who saw the game that Princeton was guilty of a number of other discourtesies that were calculated to upset the play of the visiting team. As the CRIMSON...
...your editorials in your issue of today is based upon a gross error which is a serious injustice to one of the class crews. I refer to the statement that "the fact that the 1905 class crews has been beaten in a brush over the regular course by the Newell 1905 crews shows that the men left over from the first choice who went to fill the club boats are not greatly inferior to the first crews...
...matter of fact the 1905 Newell crew (which is the second crew of the class, as there is no 1905 Weld crew) finished about four lengths behind the 1905 class crew on the only occasion when the two crews went over the course together. I respectfully submit that this statement, which inferentially suggests that the best men are not in the first boat should not have been printed without verification...
...first attack on the House Committee the writer shows his ignorance of facts. Contrary to his statement, last year's chairman was elected in the spring of 1903 when he had no intention of being away for the first half of this year and consequently the members of this committee cannot be blamed for electing a man who was to be absent for the greater part of his term. The next in accuracy is in reference to the appointment instead of the election last fall of the succeeding chairman. A glance at the records of the secretary of the House...
...recognize him, although I had dined with him the night before and had talked with him many times within the last month. But it was rather dark in the door and I did not recognize him. But when I opened the note and read a statement made on behalf of the Senior class I perceived that the messenger at the door was President Burgess...