Word: validating
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Princeton's evidence incriminating Harvard's players it seems rather to have been a second thought than otherwise. If Princeton has valid protests to raise against Harvard's team we fail utterly to see why these were not made at the New York convention when our challenged players appeared to answer any charges made against them, It must be remembered that the threat, or perhaps we ought to say the warning, of Princeton's manifesto has not as yet been pointed with any very telling evidence...
...help along the end for which class games have partially been organized-the awakening of a permanent and general enthusiasm for football. An organization so well-to-do as the football association certainly cannot refuse the cups on the ground of expense, and there can scarcely be any other valid reason for neglecting to act in the matter...
...they cannot afford in temporary imigings, and certainly all are hampered both in the enjoyment of their privileges and in their college work. In such a state of affairs surely the college seems bound to take action. Even if all the rooms cannot now be opened we see no valid reason why students should not occupy the rooms which are already finished...
...absorbing topic we must not forget the baseball interests of the college during the few remaining weeks when candidates for the nine may be practiced. Yale, we believe, makes very considerable gain be her policy of playing games during the fall season, and there seems to us no valid reason why this policy should not be adapted at Harvard, One thing is certain-a victorious nine this college year means work, and from the nature of the case the chances will be bettered by every game that is played. The matter we believe deserves the attention of the baseball management...
...well equipped as the average American bachelor of arts, and by conferring the degree of A. B. on the present juniors, Harvard would not bind herself to give the A. M. for anything less than her present requirements. If money is an object, there seems to be no valid reason why Harvard should not create a new freshman year below her present...