Word: conne
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...HAVEN, Conn., Feb. 4. - Professor Jacobi, instructor in fencing at Yale, has resigned and will leave the university at once. The Department of Fencing was instituted just a year ago and he was invited to take charge by Professor Anderson, director of the new gymnasium. Fencing has not proved popular at Yale and lack of interest is the cause of the abandonment of classes in that branch of athletics. Professor Jacobi will probably return to France where the science he teaches is more popular...
...HAVEN, Conn., January 23. - Yale students are indignant at their treatment by New Haven patrolmen at last night's fire. Several claim that they were handled with unnecessary roughness, and one shows a badly battered head which he alleges was received at the hands of a policeman. The aggrieved students declare that they will appear before the board of police commissioners at their next meeting and prefer charges of brutality against a number of patrolmen whose numbers the Yale men have obtained. Five Yale men were arrested during the crush at the fire, charges of obstructing the sidewalk and resisting...
...HAVEN, Conn., Jan. 17. - Grippe is prevalent at Yale just at present. During the past week cases have multiplied until the attendance at many of the recitations has seriously diminished. The scientific department seems to be the worst affected, many of the classes there mustering only about half their enrolled number. The dormitories of the academic department contain many cases of the distemper, but not to so great an extent as expected. The faculty are granting sick excuses almost without limit. It is thought that the epidemic is at its height in the university and that most of the sick...
...HAVEN, Conn., January 15.- Ernest H. Brewer of Springfield has been elected temporary captain of the Yale freshman crew. Brewer fitted at St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H., where he rowed on the school crew. At present he is stroking his class crew at Yale, which has just begun work in the gymnasium tank. There are over fifty candidates, the largest number which ever began training for a class crew at Yale...
...HAVEN, CONN., Dec. 19. - Malcolm G. Chace, organizer of the invitation college team which is to visit Canada the coming holidays, tonight announced the following players who will represent America in the contests in ice hockey in Canadian rinks: M. G. Chace, captain; F. A. Hovey, of Harvard; R. D. Wrenn, of Harvard; A. E. Foote, of Yale; Wm. E. Larned, of Brown, and G. B. Matteson, of Brown. All are well known in the tennis world. The first contest will take place December 27 and the trip includes a series of eight games played in Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal...