Word: gave
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...said that he understood Harvard's recent action to mean that she is unwilling to trust her teams to a committee composed of outsiders. He had no fears about Harvard's being left alone. Mr. S. E. Winslow, '85, was then introduced. After some witty remarks, he gave his theory for Yale's success that their faculty, graduates, and undergraduates pulled together, while at Harvard they pulled apart. Harvard is in need of experienced and interested men to give advice in athletics. Captains need them to help them manage the teams. They also need the moral support of the college...
...Yale Glee club gave a concert at New Britain, Conn., Tuesday night...
...several directions it is becoming the most complete in America. The two principal donors to the library have been Dr. Alfred Stille, who presented a splendid collection of books, numbering 3000 volumes, and 5000 unbound volumes and pamphlets, and Dr. William Pepper, provost of the university, who more recently gave the greater portion of his own medical library; $15,000 in money has also been received, and one half of it expended in the erection of the new library building, while the other half is to be retained as the nucleus of an endowment fund for the purchase of books...
...looked at the skies a hundred years ago to discover the nature of electricity, and we are doing the same thing now. What Franklin failed to see was that the discharge of electricity is not in one direction, but oscillatory. Josepe Henry noticed in 1835 that a Leyden jar gave out not one spark merely but several in succession. He discovered induction, and surmised wave motion, but he never thought of looking together for the source of that motion. It never occurred to him nor to us until very recently, that the electricity is not in the wires...
...down in her territory again. At 3.51 Fearing found a hole in the line, and rushing fifteen yards scored again. Goal. Score Harvard 30, Yale 4. At this point Yale made another brace and forced Harvard back. The ball was at Harvard's thirty yard line, when Stagg gave Yale twenty-five yards on account of a foul tackle. This questionable decision brought the ball to Harvard's five yard line, and enabled Yale to force it across at 3.58. No goal. Score Harvard 30, Yale 8. Harvard again forced the play. Fearing carried the ball past the centre; Trafford...