Word: havens
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Some one objects that it will seem to indicate a kind of contempt of the smaller colleges. Not in the least. Games can be played with them which are not matches, and the practice which they would get at New Haven and Cambridge would be desirable. It will be better for the smaller colleges. Take the experience of Weyleyan at foot-ball, for instance. That plucky college has made an earnest and enthusiastic effort to win at foot-ball. Its boys have labored just as conscientiously as those of Yale and Harvard, but they are beaten simply by the limitations...
...this plan, besides a possible international contest now and then with Oxford or Cambridge, there would be quite enough to satisfy the claims of athletics. Thus there will remain, say four games of base-ball-two at Cambridge and two at New Haven, and a fifth on neutral ground if necessary; the race at New London; the foot-ball game at the polo grounds, and, if thought best, one in Jarvis field and one on Yale athletic grounds; in addition, track athlects and tennis at New Haven and Cambridge, one at each place and alternating-or, these contests could remain...
...Yale seniors have elected the following class officers: Class orator, Orlando Isbel, of New Haven: class poet, Fred Palmer Solley, of Orange, N. J.; statistician, F. A. Verplank, of Norwich, Conn...
...would speak as these men have done must portray their natures on the athletic fields as well. As we hear no words from Yale but those of praise, we have all reason to suppose that this spirit is the guiding one in the mind of the New Haven student. For his sake as well as for the reputation of his college we hope to see a re-creation. The spring weather may bring...
...would be advisable for the New Haven correspondent of the Boston Globe to be present hereafter at the games which it is his duty to criticize. The mistakes in his letter published last Sunday are laughable, and prove that his knowledge of football is limited...