Word: whether
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...reasoning is good, but does not warrant their conclusion, viz: that the game was won fairly. No one will deny that Yale was ahead at the close of the game, and such a letter will throw no new light upon the point. If it were merely a question whether the championship should be withheld from where it rightfully belonged because the game did not consist of "halves of three quarters of an hour each," student opinion would support Yale's claim to the championship. The reason why the students generally, refuse to recognize that Yale won the Thanksgiving game...
...subsequently adopted by the Inter-collegiate Association. In June of the present year the Committee said to the Captain of the Harvard team for 1884, that the eleven would be allowed to play during the following season, on the understanding that the games should be regarded as a test whether or not the changes of rules had resulted in substantial change of the character of the game...
...chance for concerted action which was desirable. A request was first made to the committee for postponement which they refused absolutely, saying the subject must come before the faculty to day. As the faculty meeting to day is a stated one, it cannot make much difference to its members whether they transact more or less business. As the matter is not a pressing one, is hard to see why it could not without trouble be left till the next meeting. The committee then requested that all who had no statements to make should withdraw, when the hearing could be conducted...
...Yale freshmen have said that they would send word today whether or no they will play the foot ball game postponed at their request from last Saturday, the scheduled date. Until the telegram arrives from New Haven, we can only conjecture at its nature, Judging, however, from sentiments let fall quite freely by members of Yale, '88, who were in New York on Thanksgiving, it looks more than ever as if their eleven would not come to time. In which case, as our freshmen were already to make the journey to New Haven on Saturday last, and Yale...
...question whether we are to have a professional coach for the crews during the coming year has been under discussion for some weeks, and a lively correspondence has been carried on between the advisory committee on boating, the athletic committee, and the captain of the university crew. It was at the request of one of these parties that the CRIMSON has said nothing on this subject; but now that the facts are common property there can be no reason why they should longer be held back. The following letter, the latest of the series, explains itself...