Word: heraldic
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Best general references: Bayard's report in Boston Herald of Oct. 31, 1888; Public Opinion...
...following clipping from the Herald of yesterday, is a fair estimate of the opinion held by the Boston newspaper world in regard to the recent Harvard-Yale foot-ball episode...
...downs of the game with the same keen interest as her husband, who had been coaching the Yale team. Bob Cook, the Yale oarsman, was also nervously pacing about the chalk line muttering to himself as he saw the Princeton giants jumping on the little Yale men."- N. Y. Herald...
...Editor of the Herald. The dispiriting performances of the Harvard University teams on land and water throughout the last collegiate year makes the present an especial time for an appeal on the part of all interested in her welfare to the authorities of the college for a radical change in athletic policy. The outlook seems particularly hopeless from a general belief that recent failures are not due to a temporary lack of material, but a wrong method on the part of the students in bringing together and selecting the material, and in putting it into proper shape. The students...
...another column we publish portions of a long article on "Athletics at Harvard," taken from the Boston Herald. The author of the article is a well known graduate of this college, who, like the great majority of Harvard men is totally disgusted at the phase which athletics have assumed here during the past few years. The successive defeats of Harvard teams are attributed to the intermeddling of the faculty in athletics-an institution which the faculty, in its ill-judged endeavor to remodel and reorganize, has only succeed in working incalculable harm...