Word: greate
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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This is the largest contribution to education that has been made during the college year, which with the sum pledged by the trustees of the college makes one of the most remarkable of recent gifts. Dr. Ayres has shown great wisdom in imposing no restrictions upon the gift which will be disposed of to the greatest good of the university...
...done to Norton's Field? It is much larger, there is no grass to hurt, and it would take comparatively little money to have it made to hold water, and indeed there is always quite a large amount of water after every rain. This would have a great advantage over the ponds around Cambridge, as it would be much nearer and being on college grounds could be used exclusively by the students...
...reality this year. Even since the withdrawal of Yale and Harvard from the intercollegiate association, the New London race has been growing in interest and importance until now it holds the first place in the spring contests. In the past the races with the smaller colleges have aroused no great enthusiasm and have only detracted from the interest in the great race. Yale's decisive action in this matter shows her desire to form a dual league in boating, which we hope will soon extend to all branches of athletics...
...football season this fall opened with a great outlay in preparing the Springfield grounds for the Yale-Harvard games. In this expense Yale shared. The following summary of the club's revenue and outlay since September is very nearly complete, and has been courteously furnished by the manager for this publication...
...doubted whether with a competent umpire this disagreeable feature would be any more characteristic of the game as played this year than as played in previous years. It is also true that interference has added much to the interest of the game from a spectator's standpoint, and a great many real lovers of the game would be sorry to see it forbidden. There is one species of offside play, however, which we will all agree should be abolished, and that is interference with the ball while it is being put in play. The rushers are allowed entirely too much...