Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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YALE NEWS.The plan which was given forth to the public by the Boston papers on Monday, thus authoritatively is denied. The reporters who were able to foist the affair into prominence succeeded in creating something of a disturbance, Harvard men will be only too glad to learn that the whole affair originated in a newspaper office and not in the managements of the Columbia and Yale crews...
...publish on our first page to-day a clipping from the Boston Globe in regard to the Columbia race. The fact that Yale and Columbia have patched up a combination in this rowing matter was at first doubted among the students who heard of the affair yesterday. And it seems that they doubted with great propriety. The proposition of admitting Columbia into the four-mile race with Yale on the Thames is preposterous. Every rowing man and almost every student in the country knows that the course at New London is utterly unfit for a race between three crews...
...Advocate" discusses the base-ball muddle in all its aspects in a very fair and impartial manner, it seems to us, taking into consideration that the affair is discussed from a Harvard standpoint. Our position here has been such that at times we have felt as injured parties generally do - that we have had the worst of several disputes, and for our voice in the matter we think Yale does not wish to complicate herself in any more schemes which possibly may result to her disadvantage. Sport is broad, and the fairness and impartiality which inspires other branches...
...shouted like wild Indians. They waved their hats and pounded with their "bangers" until the rest of the audience became timid. The flag remained in full view of the audience for about ten minutes. But this could not last long. The sophomores began to get wind of the affair and they came from all directions and tried to move on the flag. But the faithful supe had secured the flag and made himself very scarce. The sophs could not approach through the barricade on the front seats. They tried to get in at the rear and at the side doors...
...society's organization was kept secret, but among the outward evidences of its existence that the "digs." nowadays termed "grinds," had, was a procession once every year. "This annual procession was an affair of great importance in the second term. After the procession the club would adjourn to Porter's Tavern, just beyond the Fitchburg railroad crossing at North Cambridge, and have a supper, commonly a very hilarious and noisy...