Word: rightnesses
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...this autumn the committee's attention was drawn forcibly to the fact that to disqualify a player three warnings were necessary, and that several elevens were making a practice of playing unfairly and, in some cases, brutally. Knowing that each player could do so twice with impunity, the committee rightly felt that foot-ball played with this spirit ought to be checked, and so far every right-minded student will agree, but as regards the time chosen for their action, there can be but one opinion, that it was very unwise...
...place the faculty force the Harvard management to break a definite verbal agreement entered into by representatives of the two colleges acting through the Yale foot-ball president, with the consent of the Harvard president, Mr. Clark, and the manager of the polo grounds. This manager would have perfect right to claim damages from Yale and Harvard for breach of contract...
...object most strenuously to the time they have chosen for their action. It is too late after all arrangements have been made to interpose objections that should have been made before if at all. If Harvard insists on any such change it would seem that they have a right only to say that Harvard cannot play under the existing rules during the season of '84. And these rules, as before stated, Yale is willing to change in any way for the Thanksgiving game...
...most measured terms when we say that this action of the college authorities has outraged the feelings of every man in college who has any self-respect, and though they may have the law on their side, we believe that they have not morally the semblance of a right to do this. Moreover, the injurious results of this action are many. Not only will the foot-ball club and many private individuals be seriously affected financially, but the authorities have virtually broken their faith with the club, and have widened to an inconceivable extent the breach which we regret...
...second Forensic will be due on Tuesday, Dec. 18, from 3 to 4.3, in Sever 1.-Subjects: 1, Is the minority more likely to be right than the majority? 2. Why is general over-production impossible? 3. How far can there be the same ethical standard for the conduct of states and of individuals? 4. The influence of Rousseau on the French Revolution. 5. Edmund Burke as orator and statesman...