Word: haveners
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...from destruction were of no avail. After the final decision of the faculty, preparations were made by the undergraduates, especially by the senior societies, to tear down the fence, and to carry off parts of it as souvenirs. One night, shortly after the Harvard-Yale freshman game at New Haven, some members of the Scroll and Keys society, having heard that the Skull and Bones intended to carry away the choicest sections of the fence on the corner of Chapel and College streets, got ahead of the Bones and carried that portion of the fence off to their society building...
...taking immediate steps for holding weekly contests in jumping, pole vaulting, and the tug-of-war in the gymnasium during the next term. As out-door exercise is practically out of the question during the winter months, the gymnasium should be used by the candidates for the Mott Haven team to the best advantage. The special contests to which we refer were held Thursday evenings last year, and contributed in no small degree to the success of the Mott Haven team last spring. Prizes should be offered to the men showing the most progress in each of the different events...
...year. It is published in simple cloth instead of paper as heretofore, which change will render the book much more desirable. It appears with records of old crews and nines that have not been published in any former Index, and it has a very fair picture of the Mott Haven team which won the cup for Harvard last May. The book of this year has twenty-five pages more than that of last year, this additional space being filled with the records mentioned above, the names of new clubs (principally "State clubs" formed in the past year), and sundry other...
...true, the only time in which Yale can row an English crew is in July or August. We could not in any possible way, shape, or manner, get our crew into its best shape as early as April. Why, the ice doesn't break up in New Haven Harbor so that we can get on the water before the middle or end of March. It needs all the time that we can get, every hour of it, between April 1 and July 1, to get our crews into their best form...
...Boston Symphony Orchestra has arranged to give a series of four concerts in New Haven during the coming winter. Among the patrons are Profs. Whitney, Summer and Farnam of Yale...