Word: grandes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Apropos the disgraceful scene at the Brown-Yale game, the Yale News thus coments on Brown's methods of cheering: "It took the form of hooting, stamping on the floor of the grand stand and calling the players names; the occasions for demonstration being pitches, strikes, called balls and Yale errors, indiscrimimately with points scored by Brown. The Brown men boasted that it was very dishonorable conduct and said they learned it in New Haven. Now we have yet to learn that it is not a point of honor with Yale men not to cheer at opponent's errors...
...morning was showery, but a little afternoon the weather had cleared so that by the time the sports were called it was bright and clear, the only drawback being a strong wind up the home stretch and a slight heaviness of the track. The grand stand was crowded with the supporters of the teams from ten different colleges, and at times of excitement the din of the varied cheers was tremendous. Harvard, Yale, Columbia, University of Pennsylvania, Lafayette, University of Michigan, Princeton, Leigh, Trinity and St. Johns, each sent at least one representative athlete, the Harvard delegation being the largest...
...courtesy to the Harvard delegation at the New Haven game, a long crimson pennant was hoisted above the blue colors of Yale, upon the flagstaff on the grand stand...
...least a speaking acquaintance with the classics. And this is by no means an unreasonable exhibition. The Sheff. seniors write theses upon chemistry, engineering, machinery, and other subjects connected with their courses; the theologies deliver embryo sermons; the lawyers amateur pleas; the academics launch on the shivering audiences grand utterances of political economy, literature, biography-and why not classics? A fair proportion of time is devoted to the dead languages, and why should they not make a due appearance at commencement? While other colleges have made a grand ado about superstitions, traditions and fetiches, Yale has made, not the classics...
...meeting was held last night in Holden Chapel, to decide what course should be taken about the erection of a suitable grand stand on Holmes Field. Mr. C. H. Atkinson was elected chairman, and H. A. Taylor secretary of the meeting. The following committee was elected: Fessenden, '86; Russell, '87; and Herron, '87. The committee was authorized to collect subscriptions, and to appoint two assistants from each class to aid in canvassing the college. After considerable discussion as to the expense and size of a grand stand, the committee was directed to examine other plans, in addition...