Word: suspicion
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...remaining colleges, Yale and Princeton, seem to have no settled relations with each other. Such a state of affairs is very unsatisfactory to every one who feels that college athletics above all should be free from politics and securely based on frankness and sincerity. Surely this mutual distrust and suspicion is unmanly and unsportsman like and entirely out of harmony with Yale's great moral purpose to purify athletics. All this internal disorder shows beyond question that an intercollegiate athletic league composed of more than two members cannot live in peace and harmony. There will be combinations and wire-pulling...
...withheld. There is, however, another possible explanation of this disappearance of property which may have some foundation. The rule regarding pedlers and book agents in college buildings is not strictly enforced. While many of these men are doubtless perfectly honest, there are others who are open to suspicion. A more rigid enforcement of the house rules would not be a needless precaution or at all amiss...
...Yale is now called upon either to accept or decline this proposition. If she accepts we can readily forgive her unwillingness before to meet us fairly and squarely. If she declines, she will condemn herself in the eyes of every just and reasonable person, and expose herself to a suspicion which we cannot, at least would not, lay to the charge of our "dearest enemy...
...makes it impossible to purify athletics from the suspicion that these imported players come for pecuniary considerations, as their equivalents...
...additional proof of the strong sense of honor and justice which we have always claimed characterizes Harvard men as a body. The offices of the sophomore class elected at the meeting last Thursday night furnish this proof in their refusal to accept the officers so long as the faintest suspicion of their right to them exists. In calling a second meeting for the election of the class officers for the ensuing year they have acted n a thoroughly manly way and shown that they deserve the confidence of their class and the respect of the University...