Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...following: I give to the president and fellows of Harvard college the flags and the accompanying parchments which were given to me by the United States government, to be carefully preserved in memory of the patriotic and heroic sons of Harvard who devoted themselves to maintain the integrity of the Union and lost their lives during the war of the rebellion...
...would have given Harvard a better place in the base-ball contest. We are inclined to doubt the value of these mutterings, for the reason that harmony might have been destroyed if the personnel of the nine had been different. But who, may we ask, has a right to maintain private grievances when his duty lies to his college alone? If we are to regain our prestige the strong undercurrent of Harvard life, which exerts, perhaps, no positive, but a strong negative influence upon our athletics must be overcome. A little more insight into the relations...
...will be readily understood that if any one could knock their pitching about at pleasure, they would be rather costly at that price. The Englishmen, however, though they may have begun to suspect that there must be more in base-ball pitching than met the eye, could not but maintain their opinion that even with base-ball bats, the bowling, or rather throwing, of the best pitcher ought to be easily...
...after the best from each class have been chosen, I maintain, with all due respect to the efforts of the others who are left, that the inter-class contests are merely sports of an amateur nature, in which each class contends with the average untrained material which would be found in any body of young men. Whenever any of the more carefully trained or better fitted material is inserted the contest becomes one-sided...
There has been a great deal of talk and newspaper criticism about the inconsistency of not admitting Columbia, in view of her record last year. Would it not be well to silence this criticism by forming a league with Columbia as a member? If she can maintain a strong nine, the struggle would be more interesting. Harvard's position has been from the first, that the standard of intercollegiate baseball should be raised. If a fair and equal constitution can be framed by the four clubs, then there can be no inconsistency in admitting Columbia...