Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...with Yale has been launched upon the consideration of the college at large, I feel that the impression created by your correspondent of yesterday requires as an adtidote the public expression of an opposing view, one which is held very genially throughout the college. First, your correspondent seems to admit that the course upon the Thames is so narrow that three crews cannot row there with equal chances, and he bases this assertion upon the fact that last June the Yale crew was compelled to swim over a part of the course. Now it has never been satisfactorily proved that...
...course, in almost all athletics. Can our freshmen afford thus to let the stigma of cowardice be cast upon them by refusing Yale admission into this race, when Columbia has set the example of her willingness? They cannot. If the Thames course is wide enough, Yale should be admitted without doubt. The question, we have been told, rests with the class of '90. If they do not admit them "they do it with their eyes open to the consequences...
Again are we bound in honor to admit Yale? Assuredly not. Contrary to long established custom, its crew was admitted last year and thus all obligation to Yale was discharged in the acceptance of the challenge. But the result of last year's race, - I hear some one saying. Are we responsible for that? are the conditions of wind and tide at New London in Harvard's power? Yale had as fair a chance as was possible with three boats in the race. Harvard gave her an opportunity to defeat our crew; Yale failed; must we keep giving her opportunities...
...believe, generally thought that '90 will admit the Yale freshmen. But if they are admitted, '90 admits them with its eyes open to the consequences...
...action but that the Dean take him to task. That is to say, I think that the college authorities should institute a committee on scholarships, which should judge whether a man's evident style of living entitles him to pecuniary aid or not; such a committee, I admit, would have odious duties, but a crying evil would be remedied to a great extent, at least...