Word: savings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...regret we cannot see. The Advocate is wrong in saying that Harvard has made a mistake in withdrawing, but that having made this mistake she must maintain her position. If we were really in fault it would clearly be our duty to retract regardless of consequences. But, save in the inopportune appointment of the committee to confer with Yale-a matter of comparative unimportance-we have not been in fault. The only reason for our maintaining our withdrawal from the league is because we believe it to have been right. Without sharing in the dyspeptic curses of Nauseatus, therefore...
...over to the Ladies' Hermitage Association, an organization composed of prominent ladies of the different states, whose object is to purchase the valued furniture and relics of General Jackson now in the Hermitage, also to restore to its original beauty and grandeur, the historic mansion now quite dilapidated, and save to the nation a sacred spot where cluster memories of holy domestic life and unwavering patriotism...
...Vernon is sacred so do we desire to save this the nation's other Mecca, thereby repudiating the oft repeated aphorism, "Republics are ungrateful...
...stands to reason, then, that they entertain ideas of athletics which might-yes, which would be of service to the 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...
...could easily be adopted to avoid this possibility, and if this were done, certainly Harvard's first objection should be answered. It remains, then, to consider Harvard's second argument against the scheme proposed. Does Harvard, after the stand which she has taken, wish to consider any proposition whatever save that of a dual league. The answer to the question is not easy. And yet this is certain, that the action that Harvard has thus far taken is a half way action, that she should either have postponed the question of a withdrawal, or else have withdrawn from all athletics...