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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...been built by Keast, and fully conforms to Yale's new scheme of making quick strokes to win. It is of cedar, and 72 feet in length. . . . . It is believed that under the new plan the whole race cannot be rowed in good form. It will be suicide to attempt a four-mile pull with a bunched or crooked back or an uneven slide. Here, it is to be feared, will be discovered the weakness of the Yale crew. The crew do not observe the excellent rule made by Captain Cook, that the strength of the stroke should be expended...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE YALE CREW. | 6/6/1882 | See Source »

...durance vile the freshmen went on with their supper. Much as they hungered for sophomore gore they hungered more for the already long delayed supper, and so, waging a war of words against the sophomores, they quietly submitted. Yet blood is in the air, and '85 will soon attempt to erase this stain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LETTER FROM MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY. | 6/5/1882 | See Source »

...tree." The many blessings that fortune had given him enabled him to live apart from the noise and strife of the more unfortunate part of society. The author of this work, however, Mr. Sloane Kennedy, a graduate of Yale, has succeeded most admirably in his attempt to present all the important things connected with Longfellow's life, in a very attractive form. While the book possesses none of the garrulity or impudent inquisitiveness of minor affairs that makes biographies so popular now-a-days, (a thing which would be impossible in the present instance, however,) one can find...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOK NOTICE. | 5/27/1882 | See Source »

There has been a slight attempt during the past week to reorganize the college nine, but the movement will probably fall through as it has met with very little support, all interest being centered in the class nines and their contests...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LETTER FROM WILLIAMS. | 5/24/1882 | See Source »

...seem totally unable to grapple with and subdue the demon of misrule." We think that a good, wholesome college, or even high school, education would have been a splendid thing for not only the "penny-a-liner" on the Times, but also for all others of his class who attempt to keep the public informed as to the "shocking disorders" in our higher seats of learning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/23/1882 | See Source »

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