Word: stating
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...several college papers and public periodicals have misconstrued the action taken by Harvard with reference to sending a crew to England, and have placed the college in a false light, it may be well to state the position Captain Bancroft has taken...
...connection with boating matters, it is only just to state that the criticism, in our last issue, of a certain gentleman's language was based on a comparatively wide-spread misunderstanding of the import of his words. He has pointed out to us the misconstruction placed upon his remarks and the mistake is willingly corrected...
...hundred years in idle state...
CORNELL, Columbia, and Yale are in a highly excited state over the prospect of our sending a crew to England. Cornell is particularly irritated, as she claims that the two races she won at Saratoga in six-oars entitle her to the "championship," and that Harvard has no right to go until she has defeated her in an eight-oared race. Yale and Columbia are equally anxious to have a race with Harvard, and let the winner of the race go to England as the "champion" college crew. What the "championship" has to do with it is not very clear...
...Argus complains of the "undignified scramble" which takes place in the chapel every morning as soon as "Amen" is pronounced from the pulpit. We were not surprised to hear of such a deplorable state of things at Yale, but Wesleyan ought to be able to set a better example...