Word: farness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...evening. The purpose of the gathering was to form the new Yale Varsity Club for all the former Yale athletes who have upheld the Blue on gridiron, track, diamond and river. The former Yale stars who assembled for the occasion represented nearly every state in the Union and constituted far and away the largest number of letter men of a single university ever collected under one roof. Captain Black's 1916 eleven, last fall's coaching staff and the Football Committee were the guests of honor...
Then followed a festival of cheering, singing and speechmaking, which lasted far into the morning. Speeches were made by Former President William Howard Taft. Former Senator Chauncey M. Depew, Vance McCormick, who engineered President Wilson's last trip to the White House, and many others...
...come upon an item on the same subject wherein we find the following paragraphs: 'Yale and Harvard have each appealed to the other to shorten the New London Classic; and now rowing followers explain Yale's new tack by pointing to the fact that Eli crews have been far from successful in recent years and that last June all three--'varsity, junior and freshman--were vastly, inferior to the Crimson shells.' I pass over the fact that during the last three years, under Coach Nickalls' administration, the Yale crews have defeated Pennsylvania, Cornell and Princeton, and that year...
Resolved, That, assuming that a league of powers to enforce peace comes into existence after the present war, the United States should so far depart from its traditional policies as to participate in that league...
...game from the Tigers, 6 to 3, makes the Crimson a slight favorite, although Princeton's practice, culminating in a brilliant 4 to 3 victory over Yale last Wednesday at New Haven shows that the New Jersey team has developed very fast. Princeton has played six games so far, winning from St. Paul's, Williams and once from Yale, and losing to the B. A. A., Dartmouth and in the first game of the Yale series. The University has won three out of four games, from the Boston Hockey Club, technology and Dartmouth, losing the first game of the season...