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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...rgreatly to be regretted that Vinton, the phenomenal Andover pitcher, from whom Yale expected so much, will probably accept a professional position this summer, and thereby be debarred from playing on college teams. [News...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/15/1884 | See Source »

...Yale alumni dinner in New York, Capt. Bob Cook is reported to have said that: "Harvard refused to accept the English system until 1876, and she has since been trying hard to reach as favorable a standing as the other college crews." Indeed! How many more races than Yale has Harvard won since that time? Some one must have blundered...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/14/1884 | See Source »

Cottlee, of Yale, will probably accept the terms of the faculty and take his diploma with '85 so as to go to Europe with the American team of which he has been chosen a member...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 3/27/1884 | See Source »

...properly considered, the question will be settled mainly by the college graduates and students of the Country, and Harvard should come in for her share.-There remain, however, many other serious objections to the form and spirit of the French Academy which ought to be discussed before we accept it as our model...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROPOSED AMERICAN ACADEMY. | 3/27/1884 | See Source »

...point in adopting a modified form of the apology that the seniors are to be required to sign before returning to the college. This modified form was suggested some time ago by a member of the board of trustees of the college but was rejected by the faculty although accepted by the students. Now, however, matters have gone so far that the students have about determined not to go back to Hamilton at all. Propositions have been made to Amherst and Union Colleges requesting that the entire class be allowed to enter one of those colleges, and it is understood...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/11/1884 | See Source »

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