Word: wronged
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...loath to countenance the race by their support. For the benefit of these we shall attempt to explain matters. Columbia holds one view of the late difficulty, Harvard another. We hold that the Harvard crew and the boat club, by its subsequent action, were entirely in the wrong, and that our men could not have acted otherwise than they did. Harvard claims that there existed merely a misunderstanding, the blame of which can be justly attributed to no one. Is it not, then, obvious that on no account could an apology be expected of Harvard when she was conscious...
...possible for a man to get highest honors in a subject who has merely attained the lowest passing mark in his other courses. Furthermore, it is possible for a man to get second-year honors and be dropped the same year. In all this there surely is something wrong...
...hours a week, a mark that would certainly give him honors if he took six courses on the same subject. So that a man practically gets the same degree for eighteen hours work that another man gets for forty-two hours work. There is something wrong in this arrangement without a doubt, and we trust that in time some method will be devised to do away with the evil...
...something more valuable than athletics, though these have their proper places and their value. Harvard College is one of the chief, if not the chief, offenders in this respect, and I am only one of many who believe that its course in this, as in other matters, is as wrong as it can well be." It is appaling to contemplate the flood of denunciation and vilification to which we are now likely to be subjected as a result of these one-sided accusations. We listen in patience for more...
...large class of people in this country on the subject. And yet the fairer class of people, while receiving his criticisms for what truth they contain, cannot help perceiving how violent and one-sided are his charges. It is not the system of college sports that is wrong, but the excesses into which those sports may, but, as we think, have but little...