Word: thinks
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Hooper for his success in refuting the slander which has been set loose upon us. In justice to Harvard his letter ought to reach the public as well as the students. The newspapers are certainly too apt to make a mountain out of a mole hill when they think they find an opportunity to bring discredit upon any college...
...they will go in for the thing once they are forced to. We have all been guilty in the past-Princeton perhaps least of all. I don't blame them so much. They found they had an unusual number of available graduates players, and they did what they think we have all been doing in persuading them to return for the foot ball season. The men are stuck there for the year, now, though...
There are, I think, but two just criticisms of their position. It may be said that the charges against Princeton are not proved. The answer is that where there is so much smoke there must be some fire. Moreover, Harvard's position does not rest on the truth of the charges; Harvard simply washes her hand of those whose honesty is even questioned. The second criticism is that it would have been much better to have waited until the Princeton match and victory were old and the undergraduates' blood had had a chance to cool. I have already said that...
...cannot play in New York, and that it would lose Yale thousands of dollars if we got the Thanksgiving day game. The fact is, as Mr. Codman says, Yale has been using us this year as a cat's paw to pull her chestnuts out of the fire. I think you are right in saying that "Mr. Codman's charge of hypocrisy in these matters is most unjust," but Mr. Codman only voices the convictions of many graduates and undergraduates as well as to this one-sided agitation for a dual league. How about that Yale mass meeting which...
...must say I think Mr. Codman was most unjust to the college in attributing our agitation against semi-professional graduate players to our defeat. He shows that he is not up in the facts. The movement was well under way, as your readers most of them know, long before the Princeton game. The credit of it belongs to Harvard, and I fancy if we here at Cambridge were to inquire into its beginnings, we should have to admit that our faculty and their committee started the movement in the strictures they imposed on the members of our team and those...