Word: predicted
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...very early in the season and impossible to predict what place Harvard will take at the intercollegiate games. The rule passed at the last meeting of the intercollegiate athletic association to the effect that third prizes will be given and will count in points for the cup is a very important one. All the colleges will probably send more men than usual to compete, for the larger number they enter, the more chance each college will have to gain points. Harvard will not be behind the other colleges in furnishing men, and it now looks as it her representation would...
...that it will have little effect for the reason that there is at present so much doubt about the recommendation becoming a rule. According to its terms it is expressly provided that "other colleges should agree to its application in intercollegiate contests." Of course it is utterly impossible to predict now the action which the other colleges will take on this important question, and the matter is thus left in abeyance for a time...
...course impossible thus early to predict the effect of the new regulation upon the chances of a dual league. This much is certain, however, that it cannot by any possibility become a barrier to the desired result. It seems to us clear, therefore, that the ultimate effect of the recent vote of the Athletic committee will simply be to free our intercollegiate athletics from many disagreeable complications such as those which have come into prominence this college year, and to tighten the bonds already existing between Harvard and Yale until they are at last drawn together into a dual league...