Word: haven
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Oldest group of its kind in the country, the Harvard Glee Club has always managed to keep at least one jump ahead of its New Haven brethren. Although twelve Eli juniors started a Yale Musical Society in 1813, not until 1860 did a real glee club appear. By this time the Harvard Glee Club was two years old. The club has given at least one concert every year since then, and met Yale's club once a year since 1928. That spring, even the Yale Daily News conceded that "Harvard had the better club...
...last night, sources at Yale reported no large-scale ticket scalping in the New Haven area. Locally, yesterday's prices dropped from their Monday high. The change, experts agreed, is only a stabilizing one, and does not foretell and severe market shakes...
John received his biggest publicity splash in 1933, the day after Harvard upset Yale by a 19 to 6 margin. Two days before the game, some gentlemen from the Lampoon abducted the Eli mascot, Handsome Dan II, from his New Haven kennel. The Sunday following the game, newspapers all over the nation ran frontpage photos of Dan licking John's feet--or, at any rate, his pedestal. The pictures did not reveal the raw hamburger that was smeared at the base of the statute...
Commenting on the Crimson season so far, Munro said, "We haven't been scoring the way we should. We've had the ball down there enough to win a hundred games, but nobody pushes it in. Everybody wants to let the other fellow do the shooting. I can't find anybody that's goal hungry...
Commenting on the race, which was held under almost ideal conditions, varsity crew coach Harvey Love said, "The times were quite good, considering the race was held in the fall and the boys haven't rowed together for very long...