Word: letterings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...secretary of the boat club has received the Yale letter, and it has been under consideration by the executive and graduate committees. A reply to it has been drafted and approved by the members of the two committees present at the meeting...
...correspondent in the Yale News advocates the hiring of a trainer at that college. He presents a number of arguments in favor of a professional trainer, all of which have been discussed over and over again in various college papers. The only importance of the letter is that it shows the different directions in which athletics, at the two leading colleges, are tending. While Harvard is struggling hard to exclude every trace of professionalism from her sports, Yale seems to steadily encourage its introduction into her athletics. The letter incidentally makes a mis-statement in saying that Harvard, at present...
...students have of deciding who shall pay for the oysters. Several students come in and sit down. One opens the book and all note what letter of the alphabet is the second in the second line from the top of the left-hand page. The book is passed to each student in turn, who cuts or opens to a new place. He who has the letter furthest down the alphabet from the letter A has to pay for the oysters...
...meeting of the Yale University Boat Club was held Monday night, at which there was a large attendance, to take into consideration a letter prepared by the graduate advisory committee on Saturday, to be addressed to Harvard Boat Club. The meeting unanimously agreed unreservedly to endorse the letter of the advisory committee; it was 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...
...letter of the Yale graduate advisory committee, published in the Sunday Herald, is regarded by the students at Harvard as a concession on the part of Yale. The proposition that Yale makes is, in substance, what the Harvard committee has contended for from the beginning of the controversy, and the result will probable be an early arrangement to row the annual race under conditions to which both parties will agree. - [Boston Herald...