Word: yale
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...have for the assertion you make in your issue of the 26th inst., that "for years it (a dual league) has been talked of and considered the final solution of all difficulties? " Has not this talk been confined to Harvard, and if so is it not worse than useless? Yale has complete control in the matter, as she is wanted by all parties. When she submits to us a proposition for a dual league, it will be well enough to consider the matter. But to do so now surely puts us in an attitude undignified and cowardly, gives Princeton...
...faculty and their committee started the movement in the strictures they imposed on the members of our team and those wishing to be members. Now we are going to put this reform through, and the reform is going in the long run to benefit Princeton most and cripple Yale most. But don't let us be undignified. and don't let us make an enemy of our old ally when there is nothing to gain there by and much to loose...
...sixth question then is, Why should this action have been without the notice or knowledge of Princeton? Why was it necessary to do this with any shadow of secrecy? If to obtain the desired dual league with Yale, why fear to give the college time to consider it? Why spring this alliance of the "fox and goose" on the university? The answer is, 'To take advantage of the ill-feeling excited by the Princeton game to get rid of Princeton.' Why not have done this in a straightforward deliberate way, if it is desired by both Harvard and Yale. Surely...
...Codman asks why the withdrawal should have taken place "without the notice or knowledge of Princeton? Why was it necessary to do this with any shadow of secrecy? If to obtain the desired dual league with Yale, why refuse to give the college time to consider it? " These questions are easily answered. It was thought that decisive action would prove that we were in earnest much more conclusively than a mere threat. There was no secrecy about the matter. Everything was done openly and avowedly. The matter of a dual league was inevitably bound up with the proposition to withdraw...
...Yale has defeated Harvard of late years but the reason is not apparent. We have more students than Yale and ought to put as good teams on the field. If our defeats are due to unscrupulousness on Yale's part, we must not complain, provided we have used the same means but not as successfully. All Harvard men naturally would like to see Harvard first in athletics, but victory must not be bought by a sacrifice of honor. Harvard students must remember that the object of this college is to fit men for the positions they will occupy in after...