Word: closed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...HAVEN, CONN., May 10. - The first debate between the freshman debating societies of Harvard and Yale was held at Alumni Hall tonight, and resulted in a victory for Yale, after a very close contest. The audience numbered about five hundred persons and nearly filled the hall...
...matter of the class fund, too, Ninety-five is reported as very remiss. Possibly the class do not realize how near to its close the college year is getting, but it is time for them to bestir themselves. To have been more backward in subscribing them any class in the past twenty years, is no enviable reputation...
...duplicate whist tournament has at length been finished, after a very close fight among the three couples that played against Yale. First place was gained by Salinger and Gunnison, who won each of the deciding matches against the other two couples by one point. Second place is a tie between Denison and Booth, and Hall and Jones. The tie will not be played...
...agile as that beautiful animal. It was observed on the opening night that one of these fair warriors looked like a certain Boston beauty who has achieved some distinction by her capture of foreign celebrities to ornament her "afternoons," but of course it is only a resemblance, though a close one. At any rate it is not safe to disbelieve in "dopple-gangers" when two women could play in a 'Comedy of Errors' and deceive their best friends...
...spring regatta of the Yale Navy was held yesterday afternoon on Lake Whitney, and the sophomore eight won the class championship of the university by defeating the freshmen in the final heat. The 'varsity and the sophomores then rowed over the same course. The contest was a close one as the 'varsity had agreed not to row faster than 30 strokes to the minute. The 'varsity finished two lengths ahead...