Word: losses
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Yale men feel that the eleven has been very much weakened by the loss of Beecher, Bull, Pratt, Carter and Woodruff, and they have gone to work with a will to develop new material. Two fields have been laid out, so that four teams can practice at once. This plan will give all the candidates good practice in team work and will especially help the freshman eleven...
...Clary, the colored assistant in the chemical laboratory, died during the summer. He was connected with the laboratory for nearly his entire adult life, and his loss will be seriously felt...
...year. It is with extreme reluctance that we are compelled to did farewell to the class of '88, who in leaving college will take with them the best wishes of the whole University. The record of the class in scholarships, literature and athletics is unequalled. It is a heavy loss to a university when she has to part with such a host of "good, all-round fellows," and the prospect of the parting soon to come will be the only damper upon the Class Day festivities. We can wish for '88 no better success in their future life than that...
...advice has been asked of him have drawn to him the love and respect of all the students. We cannot say farewell to Dr. Hale without the deepest regret. The work he has accomplished in the past among us has told on the side of good order, and the loss occasioned by his absence must be great. His work in the pulpit and among the students has always been of an eminently practical nature. He has had always in mind the great temptation which must necessarily assail men during their college career, and his words have been aimed to strengthen...
...published and distributed. The report is certain to contain valuable information on a subject that has never been carefully and fully investigated before-the real position of athletics in college life. Exaggerated ideas of the great amount of time spent by athletes in training, and of the consequent loss of time that ought to have been devoted to college work proper, etc.- will be confirmed or disproved by the result of this report. The committee has spared no pains to make their investigation absolutely complete, and their efforts have been remarkably successful. They have obtained a frank statement from nearly...