Word: captaining
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...will be viewed through the vista which time accords, and consequently cannot have the weight of immediate denial. Glad as we should be to consider the position of the News tenable, we cannot do so, nor can we unite with it in considering the reported words of the Yale captain as "a petty matter." At Harvard such a thing would be called not petty but gigantic boorishness...
...Harvard CRIMSON of Nov. 22, and the Advocate published soon after, gave a great deal of editorial space to commenting upon a so-called extract of Captain Beecher's speech at the alumni meeting in New York. And now the Thursday issue of the CRIMSON once more devotes much space to this subject and to lamenting over the new rupture which that speech has made in our present friendly relations with Harvard. We have been reluctant to enter into a controversy upon this matter for the sake of that good feeling which we thought existed between Harvard and Yale...
...Bliss has been elected captain of the Andover eleven for next year...
...Robert F. Clark, the father of the freshman football captain, who recently in conjunction with Mr. H. L. Higginson, entertained the 'varsity football team, gave a dinner last evening to the members of the freshman eleven...
MacPherson, captain of last year's Exeter foot-ball team, now at the University of Michigan, expects to enter Yale next year...