Word: threats
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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DEAR SIR.- A majority of your college, as well as a good proportion of Harvard, seem to be opposed to a dual league, as matters now stand. But will not all be in favor of proposing to Princeton a close triple league, and accompanying this proposition with the definite threat of a dual league in case they decline. And of course Princeton would not decline. For they are especially sensitive about being classed among secondary colleges...
...second thought than otherwise. If Princeton has valid protests to raise against Harvard's team we fail utterly to see why these were not made at the New York convention when our challenged players appeared to answer any charges made against them, It must be remembered that the threat, or perhaps we ought to say the warning, of Princeton's manifesto has not as yet been pointed with any very telling evidence...
...this with any shadow of secrecy? If to obtain the desired dual league with Yale, why refuse to give the college time to consider it? " These questions are easily answered. It was thought that decisive action would prove that we were in earnest much more conclusively than a mere threat. There was no secrecy about the matter. Everything was done openly and avowedly. The matter of a dual league was inevitably bound up with the proposition to withdraw from the old one. For years it has been talked of and considered the final solution of all difficulties; so when plans...
...threat of the Yale faculty to abolish all intercollegiate contests in the future has created a great deal of excitement among the students. It is tacitly understood, however, that as the faculty do not in any way object to the contests in themselves but to the general disturbances resulting from a victory, if the students will pledge themselves to restrain their ardor in the celebrations, the faculty will let the matter drop. In order to insure the continuance of all intercollegiate games, the students have themselves taken the proposition in hand and have set about organizing a special college police...
...some surplus. The proposed revision of the tariff would not reduce the revenue in the least. All articles which do not compete with our manufactures are already on the free list, and no reduction could possibly come from this source. The true nature of protection is shown by the threat made by every protected industry to smash the whole system if the duties on its products are reduced. Here is no thought of patriotism, or of the condition of the laborer; all is self-interest, which does not hesitate to destroy the prosperity of the whole country. Protection has changed...