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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...reported in an evening paper in New Haven that many of the college men were in favor of sending a committee to confer with Harvard. At the meeting Monday the presiding officer asked if there were any present who entertained any such views, in order that they might be heard. The college generally resent such an imputation, and claim general unanimity in sentiment endorsing the letter of the advisory committee...
...boating class. He also explained why the 12th of May had been selected for the date of the race, saying that the two lower classes advocated that day, that the juniors were in favor of May 5, but not very strongly, and that the committee had heard nothing from the seniors on the subject...
...their willingness to row on the fifth, with certain reservations if the race was rowed on the twelfth. Mr. Cabot was then nominated for the captaincy, but declined to serve under the circumstances, as the class could do absolutely nothing more until the decision of the executive committee was heard. The meeting adjourned with the understanding that if the executive committee decide for the 5th of May the crew should meet and elect a captain; if the 12th of May is adhered in, the matter shall again be brought up before a class meeting...
...Heard on the street - "Why, that man was your chum at college, and you were always inseparable, now you pass him with a cool bow. Has any dispute occurred?" "Oh, no; we dearly love each other still, but it would not look well to show it. I have become a doctor, and he has become an undertaker...
Prof. Lanman then made a few remarks, which every man in the college ought to have heard. The tendency in athletics is twofold. Among professionals, games as such are becoming scientific and business-like. In colleges interest in general athletics is becoming more universal. In art, the development of a people is not marked by a few exceptional works, but by the widespread dissemination of artistic taste, as among the Chinese and Japanese. In the same way the athletic development of a college should be estimated, not by the best single records, but by the extent of general athletic excellence...