Word: questionable
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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Harvard and Yale have not, as yet, agreed upon a time and place for discussing the athletic question. Captain Linn has been corresponding with Captain Calhoun of the Yale nine in regard to a conference to arrange a series of games for next spring and Mr. P. D. Trafford went to New Haven last week to propose a meeting to discuss the foot ball question. Yale declined to give a definite answer until a careful consideration of the matter could...
...first place our purpose is not necessarily, as our correspondent would seem to suggest, to express the prevailing opinion of the college in this matter, but rather to give utterance to our convictions. The question in hand certainly has two sides; the CRIMSON has taken that which seems to it most tenable...
...writer of the first communication, instead of putting the old question of "What is the matter with Harvard?" asks, "Is anything the matter with Harvard?" His answer is that Harvard is all right or at least will soon be so. Our present position in athletics is the result of forcing athletics into a position of false importance. The faculty, the alumni and the [students are awakening to this, and the tendency of the faculty is "to bring about that spirit of broad culture in athletics which is characteristic of English university life, where athletics supplement the true purposes and enjoyments...
...Your question the validity of conclusions drawn from percentages, explaining that "unless Yale gains not merely in percent. but gains more in actual numbers than Harvard, it will always be behind." It would certainly be an agreeable spectacle to watch the delusive exultation of Yale at rolling up every year an enormous increase by percentage, Harvard meanwhile quietly outstripping her in actual increase. The explanation of such a process, however, would belong to the higher mathematics. And in point of fact it is the rate of gain which throws light upon the future. The number of men from the south...
...Cambridge know it. This tendency to stagnation must be checked if she is to hold her own; in other words it must be recognized, analyzed, and the remedy pointed out. The main trouble-and this is the only justification for so frank an exposure as the two comparisons in question-is perfectly obvious. The truth about Harvard is not sufficiently known outside. Our graduates are not so active, so loyal, as those of the rival by whom we instinctively measure ourselves. And above all, the Harvard clubs, which should be centers for enthusiastic missionary work, have too often come...