Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...able to keep the lead. As every one who saw the '86-'88 class game last year must remember, it is very hard work for an eleven to play an up-hill game and win it. The following extract from the Princetonian will show what the Princeton men thought of the playing of our team: "The game in general was a spirited and extremely interesting one, and the issue seemed by no means settled until the close of the contest. Harvard presented by far the best eleven she has put in the field for a long time, and their team...
...from Princeton, which I was invited to represent. I acknowledge that Harvard had a right to bestow its honors where it choses, but, surrounded as I am by a body of professors carrying on an original research and printing their results for the public in books and periodicles, I thought it strange that no notice was taken of our college. I still feel that I had the right to give expression to my feelings of indignation as Harvard had to withhold the recognition she gave to others...
...grant, and it was not pleasant to think they had been overlooked while degrees were simply scattered among the Faculties of other colleges. Dr. McCosh might have overlooked this apparent forgetfulness on the part of Harvard had not Dr. Holmes, as he imagined, furnished him fresh food for unpleasant thought in the following lines...
After giving the matter some thought but not until he was thoroughly convinced that an intentional slight was put upon Princeton College, Dr. McCosh wrote to the secretary of the committee which had had charge of the arrangements and from whom he had received his invitation. In this letter he wrote that he had attended the celebration on the invitation of Harvard College and had "met treatment that could not possibly by any chance have happened to a Harvard representative at Princeton...
Yesterday's Globe, commenting upon the Yale eleven, remarks: "It will be seen that the Yale rush line is lighter than for several years past. It is thought that the men will more than make up in strength what they lack in beef, and it is certain that their game will be a "tricky" one. They have some very neat little tricks on hand in passing and dodging with the ball...