Word: understanded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...done in unison. If Harvard is forbidden to play with professional nines, it would be placing her at a disadvantage if she is the only college thus restricted. The Princeton faculty has not answered President Eliot's letter in the affirmative. The object of the whole scheme, as we understand it, is to discourage excesses in inter-collegiate contests; to encourage inter-collegiate athletics in every way possible, and to check the tendency towards professionalism. With all these aims, we believe the college at large is in sympathy, as long as we are not placed at a disadvantage...
...expenses of all trips, we believe, have been borne by the few men who are interested in the sport. This year there is still more need than ever of encouragement in one way and another; Princeton has taken a "powerful brace," we are made to understand, and the college at large seems to urge them on, so that they have great hopes of winning the flags. But still a new opponent, namely the Yale team, although it does not seem so formidable, judging by its defeats at the hands of the Princeton men, appears. This is the team which...
...form of a formal regulation what has long been the practice in regard to candidates for the various crews and clubs of the college. The fourth rule, requiring ability to swim from all members of the crews, is eminently proper and commendable. The same rule is in operation, we understand, at Oxford and Cambridge Universities, England. A rule similar to the fifth rule has, we believe, already long been in force. It will be seen that the most important of these regulations relate to the exclusion of any element of professionalism from our college sports. This end they will undoubtedly...
...letter of the 9th inst. was received the following day. I have delayed my reply in order that I might be able to answer your questions with entire certainty. Your first questions is as follows: "Harvard on account of Mr. Benjamin's death agreed to postpone the race, fully understanding, it is said at Harvard, that in the new agreement the time (hour) was to be left to Harvard. Did Columbia so understand?" You ask further : "Harvard, perhaps wrongfully, insisted on rowing at 11.30 or 12 M. Columbia refused. Then Harvard states that it was verbally, though explicitly, agreed that...
...consider every one who signed the document as responsible for it, but suppose that many signed it in July, when they did not understand the state of affairs, who would not have done so in October after it had all been explained. It was probably forwarded in haste by a few of the signers, who did not consult the others but took it for granted that their sentiments were the same as when it was signed and before Harvard had been heard from...