Word: comments
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...taken to task by a writer who does not bother to draw on his gloves. He has waded right in and dealt his blow with a bare fist. One thing is certain--he has his opinions and these are to be regarded. But we hardly think our enthusiastic comment of yesterday morning on the British capture of Jerusalem calls for such a Philippic. Had we been presenting a detailed study of the taking of Jerusalem and its effect upon the world, we should have been guilty of a grave omission in making no mention of the Jewish people...
...next ten days, he will spend considerable time in watching the Freshman backs and will aid in beginning the new offensive. "When the crudeness of the team's play wears off, and the men become familiar with their positions, the Freshman eleven will be a strong aggregation," was his comment after practice...
...wish I could comment as favorably on the cross-country material. Too much cannot be made of our need of more material, especially from the Class of 1921. At present, there are some twenty Freshmen out. There ought to be at least fifty. The Freshman cross-country team is the foundation of the Freshman track team, and the Freshman track team is the basis of future University teams. With the present scanty material, the outlook is not bright for a University team next year...
...Harvard football team has played its first game of the season and won. In other years this would be a statement to excite no comment. It would be a matter of course. But there is a great significance in the fact this year...
...Crimson prints today a communication from a member of the University who attacks Columbia and her president for the dismissal of two professors. There is only one comment which we should like to make on this letter. And this is the form of an interrogation. Is the writer possessed of sufficient facts to warrant such a statement appearing before the public with his signature appended? If so, he should have stated what these were, so as to strengthen his case; nay, to make it secure. For is it not possible that the governing body of Columbia University may be cognizant...