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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...following gentlemen have kindly consented to act as judges...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prize Poem. | 11/30/1886 | See Source »

Yale has written that she will not play Princeton tomorrow at Princeton. By this act she has shown her true colors. Silent at first, apparently acquiescing in the decision of the convention, she now at the eleventh hour declares her intention of playing the game on paper and so to claim the championship. For the past three years she has by her peristent nonsense, destroyed the harmony of the foot-ball league. Patience is exhasted and the time has come when her selfish spirit should be so effectually chained that the college world may no longer be disgraced by such...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/24/1886 | See Source »

...freshman team at Harvard supposed to keep training? If so, were the members of our present freshman foot-ball team who were at a certain ball in Boston on Monday night, drinking, there and elsewhere, until five o'clock in the morning, guilty of a dishonorable act towards their team, their class, and their college? 2, As Yale always plays her dropped men, why have not the dropped '89 players (who are undoubtedly better than most of the freshmen), been playing on the freshman team? Is it the fault of the freshman captain, or has our courtesy in regarding dropped...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/23/1886 | See Source »

...following men will please act as ushers in the game to-day, they can obtain buttons by reporting on the field at 1.45. Bowles, Brengle, Cameron, F, S. Coolidge, Endicott, R. F. Fiske, Flagg, de Gersdorff, Heckscher, Higginson, Herron, Keyes, Mumford, Potter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Notices. | 11/20/1886 | See Source »

...cause to be generally is, and when his friends and fellow-workers at the college heard the version of all that had happened at Harvard's celebration they were indignant, too, and extremely glad that Dr. McCosh had absented himself from the banquet that was designed to act as a sort of capstone to the celebration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dr. Holmes's Hard Words. | 11/18/1886 | See Source »

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