Word: actions
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Advocate's attack on the Executive Committee seems a little ill-timed, when we reflect that the action of that committee was indorsed by a boating meeting, and when their reasons for "procrastination" are known by most men in college. It does not seem so difficult to apprehend why the Executive Committee should hesitate to bind the College to a race with Cornell, at present our most doughty adversary, when they foresaw as possible what has now happened. We are at a loss to know to whom the term "boating representatives" applies; if by it are meant the crew...
...crew of '77 and '78, having won three victories in two successive years, have decided to disband and make room for the younger rowing men in the University. While we regret as much as any one this action taken by the crew at a time when Harvard seems likely to lose its reputation for good rowing, we think it is more fitting to thank them for what they have achieved than to visit them with abuse and sarcasm. It is unfair to complain if men, who have devoted their energies during three years to the interests of boating, should...
...following editorial on the action of the boating authorities at Cornell, from which it would seem that the Navy Directors are very much like our Executive Committee in the power they have and the use they make...
...done was not. If the voice of the students is worth anything, it is of importance in such steps as these. The challenge, having been given in the name of the University, required the consent of the University before it could be withdrawn. A further and fitting action on the part of the Directors, and which would show still more clearly the idea they have of their responsibility to the students, would be to call a meeting to ratify this last action of theirs in the matter...
...Much surprise was occasioned in the last week of last term by the withdrawal of the challenge to Harvard for a university boat-race next summer. Many remarks upon the action of our Navy Directors were made, some favorable, more expressing disapproval, but by this time the general sentiment of the students is with the Directors and indorses their action...