Word: withdraw
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...spite of all that has been previously said regarding the proposal of Harvard to withdraw from the Inter-collegiate Base-ball League, it seems that our position is not yet sufficiently well understood to escape unfavorable comment from Dartmouth and of course from Yale. For the benefit of those colleges we desire to state once more the position which Harvard has taken, so far as she has taken any, upon this question...
...appear in its editorial columns. The flagrant misrepresentation contained in its statements it is useless to comment upon : "After Harvard had adorned the rear ranks for several years in the contest for base-ball championship, there was a boom started at that college this year that the Harvard Nine withdraw from the contest, inasmuch, as they then said, Harvard was known to be an institution 'devoted to learning only and not to athletics.' A university meeting was held for the university to take some action, but just then the worthy president evolved his little scheme by which as much college...
...seems, therefore, that an attempt to dissolve the present league would be successful at the convention. And surely this would be a far better plan than for Harvard to withdraw alone from the league in the hope that Princeton, Yale and Brown would follow her and thus leave Dartmouth and Amherst in the lurch. We certainly think that a smaller league than the present one is desirable, since it would result in a closer contest for the championship. This, however, in largely a matter of opinion, and we shall be glad to publish the opinion of any one who entertains...
...Harvard game. It leaves its readers to judge for themselves concerning the conduct of Yale from the account published. Its correspondent says: "Yale's unfairness was greeted by hisses and cries of disapproval by the crowd. Unless better treatment can be secured, it might be well for Harvard to withdraw from an association that countenances such play, or at least refuse to play Yale, until it promises to play a perfectly fair game. The first touchdown was made in twelve minutes. The ball was then kicked off again and returned by Yale. The Harvard man, Edmands, had no sooner caught...
There is a movement to withdraw the Oxford-Cambridge race in future from the Thames and London crowds, and remove it to Henley. The professionals don't think much of the race. The New York Times says of the crews and the race : "They are university men, and their friends have made the event fashionable, and added to this is the tremendous "spurt" which national taste has given to all kinds of out-door sports during the last quarter of a century. It was something like fifty years ago that boat-racing became a feature of university pastimes...