Word: havener
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Charles Haven Goodwin Scholarship; founded in 1889, with an income of three hundred dollars...
...with it is necessary to quote a little history. The Yale letter, although it deals especially with a particular series of recent charges, has in mind the events of many years. Time after time our team has met Harvard, has fairly won the battle and has returned to New Haven to find that in the eyes of the spokesmen from Cambridge, their victory has been a disgrace...
DEAR SIR: - I regret that your illness prevented your coming to New Haven as you proposed doing in your letter of April 23. Your visit would have given me the opportunity of informing you of Yale's position with regard to a Harvard game next fall...
There is nothing in the feeling of the Harvard players, or of Harvard men generally, which would prevent their meeting the Yale men next November in a spirit of generous rivalry. If, however, the feeling at New Haven is such that Yale is unwilling to arrange a game with Harvard for next autumn, the Committee can only express the general regret of Cambridge men that the two colleges must lose this opportunity of showing that they have the will and the ability to play football with each other in a friendly and sportsmanlike spirit...
...prevent a game next year, she could scarcely have gone about it in a surer way. Harvard men will be in perfect accord with the spirit of the letter in which their athletic committee has replied to Yale. They will wait with eagerness for further developments at New Haven, and in the interval of uncertainty all final judgment must be withheld. For the present it can only be hoped that Yale's letter does not express the actual feeling in the college...