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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...comparison, as this was the period chosen by the News itself. The utter want of foundation for the News' article is thus seen to be on a par with the most of its assertions about Harvard. In addition to the testimony of these facts and records, we all know by what questionable means and unfair methods Yale obtains her superiority in the one sport in which she does excel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMPARATIVE RECORDS. | 12/14/1882 | See Source »

...know," replied Montmorenci, cuttingly, with a polite smile; "but I know a man who had twins so much alike that the only way to tell 'em apart was to send one to Harvard and one to Yale. Then one came back a gentleman and one a Connecticut rough." - [From the "Cave of Gloom and the Desert of Gall" in the last Yale Record...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/13/1882 | See Source »

...Wednesday last. Towards the end of the year the senior class are invited to visit the observatory and inspect it, and they are then given a look at the moon. With this valuable amount of astronomical knowledge is the Harvard student thrown upon the world. Many high school scholars know more of astronomy than an average Harvard graduate. The university would do well to give its students a little more of the good which might be obtained from its department known as the Astronomical Observatory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/13/1882 | See Source »

...science of the game, and for what she has done in this way she deserves all praise. But she has also done the game much injury, as our correspondent says, by making it unnecessarily rough and out of accord with the traditions and proper spirit of college sports. We know very well with what derisive jeers this opinion will be received at Yale, and how readily the taunt of effeminacy will come to the lips of the self-sufficient News; but, nevertheless, we believe our opinion is sound and reasonable, and is not sufficiently refuted by simple derision...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/13/1882 | See Source »

...correspondent writes to inquire what has become of the illustrious Snodkins! Wants to know if at last he has graduated out into the wide, wide world, and why he doesn't appear any more in the pages of the Crimson and Advocate? We suppose...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/12/1882 | See Source »

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