Word: subjectivity
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...order to keep up the interest in chess during the entire year, the Chess Club has decided that the championship of the college must be held subject to challenge on the following conditions...
...them that the Faculty's action was so hasty and unadvised as to deserve condemnation for that fact alone. A careful investigation of all injuries received by football players last season has been made and it was the intention to submit to the Faculty a report on the subject as soon as it could be drawn up. With this report there were to be presented suggestions for modifying the game, so far as objectionable features could be removed by changes in the rules; so far as an improvement in the spirit of the players is concerned, none know so well...
...Faculty naturally felt hesitancy in commenting upon their action. Dean Briggs thought it best not to give any account of the way the vote was passed, but the impression received from other sources was that the vote, as passed, was not the result of prolonged deliberation, although the subject of placing restrictions on intercollegiate football had received considerable attention. One member of the Faculty said that he thought that the consideration which most affected the action was that the principal games had become such large and unwieldy affairs and attracted so many persons who had no college associations or interests...
...construed, encroached prematurely upon the province of the Athletic Committee. They have assumed, apparently without due knowledge, that intercollegiate football can not and will not be improved, either by the players themselves, or by a specially appointed Athletic Committee who are far better qualified to consider the subject than are they. On the strength of this assumption, they have taken action which we cannot but consider too hasty and wholly unjust. The blow which would be struck at the game of football itself by the prevention of intercollegiate contests, is one which can not at present be justified...
...arrange a debate with the debating club of the Prospect Union, to be held in Sever 11, March 15. There will be three disputants on each side, each of whom will speak for twelve minutes. One speaker on each side will then be allowed six minutes to close. The subject is: "Resolved, That labor organizations are prejudicial to the best interests of workingmen." The Harvard Union will have the affirmative...