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Word: suspect (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
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Some one, we suspect a member of the graduate department, has written a Harvard letter to one of our contemporaries from the far West which we feel it almost beneath us to notice. This person has undertaken to deal sarcastically with our manner of living and with the financial management of the University, and has made it appear that Harvard is intolerable in the extreme. He pictures a state of affairs which would be ridiculous in any college and which is far from what we enjoy. We do not want graduates of other colleges to come to Harvard who cannot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/5/1890 | See Source »

...many of the men that I have spoken to about athletics have expressed themselves as rather opposed to a dual league that I suspect the presence of a large class who believe in no league at all. I am so impressed by their arguments (which I think have not appeared in print) that I venture to ask a few lines of your space to recapitulate them in. Without any agreement or any red tape we have a league de facto. Whatever contests we undertake now will be simply matters of sport. The colleges will be (or ought to be) gentlemenly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communications. | 2/24/1890 | See Source »

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