Word: opinion
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...last editorial censures the decision of the faculty on the Glee club's petition, but does it in such an undignified and even childish spirit as to lose the force the Advocate's opinion should convey...
...captains and the management of our organizations. But the initiative in this matter must come from them, and here of course lies the difficulty. We are thoroughly aware that save in affairs of general management, it would be a delicate matter for our faculty to express their opinion of our athletics. It can be done, however, and that in a spirit of not even seeming interference. Something must certainly be done. A Harvard spirit stronger then ever before is now rife among graduates and undergraduates, and it can hardly be that this has failed to reach the faculty...
...therefore, received anything like careful attention. If is, of course, foreign to the purpose of the dinner that any definite move whatsoever should be made-that is at once undesirable and out of the question; but the hope is entertained that there may be a thoroughly free expression of opinion on any phase of the athletic question. In this way, and in this way only, can we prepare for the developments of the coming season. Harvard has already fixed a policy on herself which it will be for her best interests to understand in its every phase if she would...
...have, I regret to say, played on Harvard teams when I blushed at the unfair play of the men next to me on the Harvard side, and if the attempt is made to eliminate every man of a mean spirit from every college team, I am humbly of the opinion such attempt is hopeless...
Yale men seem to be very shy about expressing any opinion in regard to Harvard's withdrawal from the football league, but Captain Gil has intimated that a mass-meeting of the students will be held in a day or so at which the matter will be thoroughly discussed and Yale's action in the matter will be made known...