Word: haven
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...contrast the Blue's athletic debuts against Harvard were singularly unsuccessful. Exactly a century ago, an old Harvard shell, the Oneida, defeated New Haven crews in the morning and afternoon. The 100th anniversary crew race will be celebrated this spring. Sixteen years later, the Crimson won the first baseball game of the rivalry, 25 to 17. In 1875, Harvard won the football opener by four goals and four touchdowns...
...Yale was two hundred years old. Describing the bi-centennial celebration in New Haven, Charles Eliot Norton of Harvard wrote," It was a great success as an advertisement and interesting in many ways. But there was a total lack of splendor; there was not dignity or stateliness in the arrangements. The most serious lack was the absence of any presentation of the true ideal of a great university and of its supreme function in a modern democratic society...
...took the only president of Yale since 1766 who was not a Yale graduate to get the New Haven college (actually a university since 1887) on the move again. During his tenure in office from 1921 to 1937, James Rowland Angell of Michigan probably did more to produce the Yale which exists today than any other man. He erected 37 buildings, quadrupled endowments; formed a new engineering school, an observatory at Johannesburg, and the first U. S. graduate school of nursing; pulled the law and medical schools out of the rut, and set up a drama department under George...
During this period, Yale inadvertently did its Cambridge rivals a favor. Edward S. Harkness, in 1928, offered the New Haven school three million dollars to establish the beginnings of a House system. Discouraged by the arguments and delays of the Yale Corporation, Harkness lost patience and offered the money to Harvard instead. Historians claim that it took President Lowell only ten seconds to consider the offer and accept it. In a few weeks Harkness raised the gift to ten million dollars and Harvard's House system was underway...
Betting pools--reportedly linked to a multi-thousand dollar gambling syndicate--have been uncovered at Yale following an investigation by the New Haven police...