Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale, without much doubt, will capture the cup this year, while Harvard, who until 1887, had won successfully for seven years, having sustained a very serious loss in the graduation of most of her team, seems to stand a very poor chance. Yale will surely take four firsts. Harvard, Columbia and U. of P. will each win two or three, while Princeton also will come in for her share...
...that time there existed thirty-one academies, and eighteen colleges. Of the colleges, four were in New England: Dartmouth in New Hampshire, Harvard in Massachusetts, Brown in Rhode Island, Yale in Connecticut. New York had old Kings College, the name of which had since the Revolution been changed to Columbia College. New Jersey had Rutgers for the Dutch Reformed, and Princeton for the Presbyterians. In Pennsylvania there were the University of Pennsylvania and Dickinson College. Of the nine southern colleges, five were in Maryland; they were St. John's College at Annapolis, Georgetown College, now in the District of Columbia...
...take an important place in college journalism. It is called the Red and Blue and will be devoted mostly to literary articles. The news department will be small as the paper will be published only semi-monthly. A prominent feature will be regular correspondence from Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Columbia. The first number was issued March 1st. The arrangement is neat and the genera appearance good...
...SMITH, Captain Columbia Freshman Crew...
DEAR SIR: The Yale freshman class hereby challenge the Columbia freshmen to a two-mile straightaway race, to be rowed at New London next June, the date to be mutually agreed upon hereafter. Yours respectfully...