Word: actions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that Harvard is striving for absolute purity, it is certainly no argument that she has not lived up to the standard which she has now set herself. Everyone who enjoys college sport and believes in honesty, ought, I think, to rejoice at the good which Harvard's action must eventually produce if she is steadfastly true to her present ideal.- however much he may depreciate the untimely action...
...feel this criticism to be unjust, we cannot simply pass it by as such. We must rather give the world some proof of the sincerity of our convictions. The needed opportunity is now offered in the coming dinner. It rests upon us by our attendance and our action there not only to show the eleven that we fully appreciate their work, but the world also that we stand as a body in defense of purity in college athletics. Those students, therefore, whose college patriotism is genuine will sign at once...
...criticism of Harvard's action published today presents another phase of the misconception which has grown up concerning our present attitude on the football question. The questions are asked, Is not the dual league after all purely a Harvard scheme? Has not Harvard by withdrawing hurt rather than bettered her position? The answer to one question is the answer to both. The trouble with Princeton has no don't called out an expression of much needless ill-feeling. It is impossible, however, despite our recent defeat at her hands, that Princeton should put into the field a fair team capable...
...question, then, of the dual league, while it of course arose, it could not in justice determine Harvard's action. And yet our correspondent is wrong in stating that the dual league is purely a Harvard scheme. The CRIMSON has had occasion to consult some prominent Yale men upon the subject, and while they have indeed spoken guardedly, they have yet assured us that the sentiment of Yale was in favor of the scheme. The exceptional good fellowship displayed at the Spring field game also, may justly be regarded as an index of Yale's sentiment; and more than...
...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 from the old one. For years...