Word: haveners
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...George Bushnell of New Haven has been elected to fill the vacant place in the corporation of Yale. The corporation at present consists of twenty members, ten of whom must be Connecticut clergymen. Of the others six are elected by graduates of five years' standing, two are always the Governor and Lieutenant Governor of this State, and the remaining two the President and Secretary of the university. Dr. Bushnell takes the place of the late Rev. G. J. Tillotson...
...Knapp, Yale '86, who won first place, with Brinley of Trinity second; in the doubles Yale won with Knapp and and Thorne, Brinley and Wright, of Trinity, being second. In the following year, 1885, towards the end of October, the tournament was held on the grounds of the New Haven LawnTennis Club. W. P. Knapp, the winner of the singles the year before, was again victorious both in singles and in doubles, winning the doubles with Shipman; in the singles Brinley of Trinity again won second place, and in the doubles Chase and Pratt of Amherst were second...
This fall, players from eight of the colleges took part in the tournament-Pennsylvania, Lehigh and Wesleyan not sending any entries. The tournament was held at New Haven and Harvard won again in the singles through P. Sears, but lost the doubles to Hall and Campbell of Columbia, the winners of the first place in the United States championship tournament. Sears and Shaw, however, won second place in doubles and Hall of Columbia in singles...
...years past the Harvard freshmen teams have beaten the Yale elevens, once at Cambridge, and once at New Haven. The team this year has the advantage of playing on its own grounds, which is one reason at least why it should be victorious. The contest is more than a class contest; it represents in a way the college itself, and this is the is the strongest reason why the freshmen should make every effort to win it. We urge the team to improve every hour of the time that remains, and we wish the best success in the contest next...
...exhibition game between the two colleges on Thanksgiving day at Cambridge. Nothing official has been decided upon yet, and it cannot be stated authoritively where the game will be played. There is yet a chance that Yale will agree to paly a championship game in Cambridge or New Haven if she succeeds in defeating Princeton today. Harvard wants the game to be played somewhere, and is willing to do everything in her power to bring about some arrangement satisfactory to Yale. The disputed question as to where the foot-ball game will take place and whether it will count...