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...true solution; let this be proposed to Yale, if they adopt it well and good; but if not, then let the game be stopped at Harvard. Mr. Williams thought that playing had improved in tone this year, and that the stronger public opinion of the present would uphold and carry through any changes as proposed. An urgent appeal was then made to the committee by several gentlemen for more time to introduce sweeping changes in the rules. The game was acknowledged to be the most healthful of college sports, and it should not too readily be given up. The conversation...
They go to uphold a good old college custom, they attach no political significance to their action, they go because they want the demonstration made by Harvard to be a good one, one in which all may take part. For these various reasons we regret the action of the C. and H. Club and call upon the students to have pride enough in the procession of Harvard College to refuse the invitation, swallow their disappointment and go with the majority in the Republican ranks, in accordance with the good old custom...
...cases where championship races have been planned. It is on this ground that the New York Clipper, the most professional of all sporting papers, sustains their action. It says that "In the event of no acceptor appearing, sporting law and custom, meaning the code practised by professional oarsmen, will uphold them." To resort to professional methods for obtaining a title seems very objectionable; to resort to the same means to make a race, which could be obtained, if at all, by the usual methods known to collegians, seems the worst possible taste. While every effort is being made at present...
...calm and reasonable, but none the less we would advise some immediate concerted action on their part, if only to show the drift of their opinion. We believe that the best thing to be done under the circumstances is to appeal to the faculty, and if they uphold the committee then to appeal to the corporation, and if this is in vain,-then our last resource is to make an appeal to the graduates...
...truth improvements tend to decrease rather than to increase rent. Improvements in transportation obviously decrease rent, by bringing new lands into cultivation, or rendering old lands more accessible. Improvements in agriculture have the same effect. Mr. George, therefore, has neither fact nor argument to uphold...