Word: despatched
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Intercollegiate-Associated Press Despatch...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: I have just received a despatch from Canon Wilberforce saying that "to his unspeakable distress he will be unable to fulfill his engagement at Cambridge to-night, as he is confined to his bed with inflamed throat and chest...
...Haven despatch says that Yale's pitcher, Stagg, denies that he is to play with the Bergin Point nine, and states further that he has positively declined the most advantageous offer he has yet received - that from the Chicago club. It seems the reason he declines the offers to play-ball professionally is from "conscientious scruples." He proposes to enter the theological seminary after he graduates from the Yale academical department...
...following sentence concludes a despatch to the Cornell Sun concerning the Harvard-Cornell game: "We outplayed them in every point. The umpire and crowd beat...
...seems then that a powerful "combination" has been formed to make Harvard admit the Yale freshmen and Columbia 'varsity to the contests at New London. The plan is well arranged, and the attempt is ingenious. A despatch was sent yesterday to New Haven for further particulars in regard to the matter, but up to the time of going to press last night no answer had been received. The crew management has received no notice of the demands made by Columbia and Yale, and declines to make any statement in regard to the matter until after such notification shall arrive...