Word: conne
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Julius Hawley Seelye was born in Bethel, Fairfield county, Conn., Sept...
...oratorical contest between the Harvard and Yale prohibition clubs took place Saturday evening in Unity Hall, Hartford, Conn. Mr. Allen B. Lincoln, Yale '81, presided, and appropriate music was rendered by Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Beveridge of Nebraska. The judges gave their decision in favor of the Yale club. While the judges were conferring Mr. E. C. Snyder, secretary and organizer of the National Intercollegiate Prohibition Association, explained to the audience something of the workings and significance of the intercollegiate prohibition movement, which has now spread to include thirteen or fourteen different state associations and over a hundred colleges...
...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...
MIDDLETOWN, CONN., May 9. - Wesleyan defeated Brown for the first time today and the Middletown students celebrated their victory by ringing the college bell and in other ways expressing their joy. Wesleyan's team work was excellent, only two errors being made and but for these the Brown men who made all their runs in the third inning would not have scored. Brown hit Beeman for ten singles, but the hits were all scattered. For the visitors Donovan excelled. Brown's errors were costly and Green's fumbles on first were responsible for several of Wesleyan's runs...
...HAVEN, CONN., May 8. - The 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...