Word: yield
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...college who knew the rules. As they were the champions this year, they thought they had the right of insisting on the game they preferred. They admitted that we had the same right last year, and they considered that it was a mark of courtesy in us to yield to them: but now they refuse to extend us the same courtesy. To the fact brought forward by our captain, that all the colleges of the Association had agreed to play with a fifteen, they replied that they had understood we were training an eleven only, though they owned that...
...secure such a change would require a well-signed petition to the Faculty, or some other decided expression of opinion from a majority of the students. To such a plea the Faculty would certainly yield, since this is a matter that concerns the students only...
...Williams Athenaeum has come to the conclusion that "Intercollegiate rowing does not yield a return in proportion to the outlay. This is true even when a college is victorious, and peculiarly so in our College; for regattas, while they have never been a source of glory to us, have never failed to leave behind them a powerful reminder in the shape of a good-sized debt on our rowing association...
...anxious about the reputation of our poets. The Yale Courant quotes a few lines from the Oberlin Review, and then says: "Yet even this gem will have to yield the palm to 'A Comparison,' by A. D. F., in the Amherst Student." If A. D. F. can write a few more such morceaux the Harvard poets will have to look after their laurels. This morceau we give in full...
...University ball nine and the University crew were organized under conditions disadvantageous and even unfair to them? This dispute, however, if carried further, would involve the question as to which athletic interest should be supported in preference to the others, and here we will say that we cheerfully yield on this point The foot-ball party are quite willing to make up their team from among the disappointed aspirants for the ball and boating laurels. What we do earnestly wish is to be allowed to play our little game all the year round, and to receive the good-will...