Word: letters
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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DEAR SIR: - I regret that your illness prevented your coming to New Haven as you proposed doing in your letter of April 23. Your visit would have given me the opportunity of informing you of Yale's position with regard to a Harvard game next fall...
...meeting of the Athletic Committee was held Saturday night. The letter received from the Yale football management was considered and a reply was agreed upon and sent. For the satisfaction of graduates and members of both universities it is possible that the correspondence will shortly be published...
Today has been a red-letter day for Yale - her victories on the diamond and on the track being very important contributions to her athletic supremacy for the year. The game with Princeton this afternoon was, in the opinion of Yale's mascot, Pop Smith, the "best ever played at New Haven," and no graduate remembers any game that has been watched with more breathless interest. When Carter was obliged to retire in the sixth inning, on account of his lame arm, there was a general feeling of despondency among the supporters of the blue. Trudeau, however, certainly did himself...
...Yale News printed an editorial yesterday to the effect that the statements printed in metropolitan papers relative to Yale's refusal to play Harvard at football were distorted and exaggerated, but that no official statement of the situation would be given till Harvard's answer to Capt. Thorne's letter should be received...
...News has as yet seen no signs of the correspondence. Captain Thorne says that Yale's letter will surely be given to the public after Harvard's answer is received...