Word: ely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Haven fields. The hill and dale men meet the Yale runners in the annual triangular clash to which Priceton also sends representatives, and the last two years show a Harvard superiority that was challenged by the Blue last fall over the new Eli course, but which displayed the strength of the Crimson teams. Over the Charles River course in 1925 W. L. Tibbetts '26 led R. G. Luttman '28 and E. C. Haggerty '27 across the finish line and the one-two three order of those runners brought the Crimson a total of 20 points, while Yale tralled with...
...seatings of the 1930 first eight, the Freshman 150-pound boat, and the sophomore class crew for their respective races Saturday with Tech and Penn, the Yale first year 150-pounders, and the Eli class crew, follows...
...stated clearly that it does not care to remain longer either different or indifferent in regard to non-scouting agreements, and that next year its officials will restrain any curiosity pertaining to Yale teams until the final game in the Stadium. Next year organized and open scouting of Eli teams will be abandoned, with the words "next year" specific in the agreement. Remembering the tardy, appearance of her football teams among the ranks of numbered players, Harvard is willing to fall in line for one experimental year...
...advantage even over other young gentlemen who start fashions in men's harberdashery, for the Princeton man cannot wear his swanl sport suit to the dinner table, not the Eli his fawn-colored flannels. Until the New Haven debutantes can persuade Chapel and High Street debutantes to give dinner parties, and until Princeton can move its Gothic walls within twenty minutes of Sherry's or the Bellevue- Stratford, the gentle sons of Harvard will continue to enjoy their advantages...
These words were not balm for the soul of an Eli nor yet again would the strike with anything like smoothness on a son of Old Nassau. I asked several ladies of my acquaintance about this and their replies were polite enough; but usually they had a smatter of frankness in them. "You Yale men have no small talk", I remember being told. "And as for Princeton men--they have nothing but small talk...