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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...winter meeting at Yale last week three records were broken, the running high jump by one inch, the pole vault by 1-6 inch, and the high kick by two inches; the last is only two inches less than the world's record...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 3/15/1887 | See Source »

...from beginning to end. Little incidents are told of each man on the crew, and each one is given his own peculiar nick-name. The author gives a very interesting account, to begin with, of the organization of the crew. To quote his own words: "Forty men, more or less, the 'pride and flower' of the class, assembled in the gymnasium, afternoon upon afternoon, with beating hearts and anxious faces. Lean men, short men, fat men, tall men, sturdy men, sallow men, flabby men and bronzed men - all 'trying for the crew!" Finally the crew was selected. Challenges came from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The '89 Crew-Book. | 3/12/1887 | See Source »

Theme X. will be due on Tuesday, April 5. Subject: An Exposition. Theme XI. will be due on Tuesday, April 26. Subject: An Argument. For Themes X. and XI. may be substituted a Double Theme, of not less than ten pages, comprising both Exposition and Argument. The Double theme will be due on Tuesday, April...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Calendar. | 3/12/1887 | See Source »

...railroad station. Sometimes the student actually has to shove his way through the crowd, while the boys are thrusting papers in his very face, as if he were escaping from a swarm of hackmen. Will not some one inform these irrepressible youngsters that there must be better order and less noise...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/10/1887 | See Source »

...more dignified footing, and has opened an avenue for a settlement of this vexed question. In granting these enlarged powers it must not be for a moment supposed that the personal responsibility of the management is a whit lessened, and that they will pass decision on important questions with less regard for the interest and expressed desire of a majority of those they represent. The various schemes have been discussed in all their bearings, and if the issue be unfortunate we can at least escape the charge of having given the subject hasty and immature thought. As in every disputed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Coming Round. | 3/9/1887 | See Source »

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