Word: mass
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: To-morrow, Saturday, February 26th, the base-ball delegates from Princeton, Yale and Harvard meet together in New York, according to agreement, to confer regarding the results of the mass meetings held at the respective colleges. Now, the question for us to decide is this: Are we to be cajoled, bullied or otherwise persuaded by Yale to give up our scheme of forming a new league, thereby intimating our intention of sticking to the old league? The opinion of a great many representative men of the various classes whom I have consulted, seems to be that...
...expenses of graduation are heavy enough now without adding to the list this seemingly unnecessary item. Then, again, we all know the state of air in Sanders during the exercises is such as to render it expedient that the audience be lightly clad, and not be smothered in a mass of frills and ruffles. The cap itself adds no little warmth to the body. For this reason alone this departure from long usage would be inadvisable. All the distinction which is necessary between members of the graduation class and those of the lower classes, is made by the dress suit...
...Haven, on Monday night, another mass meeting was called to decide whether or no the committee's adverse report should be accepted. It was accepted almost unanimously. All the Yale graduates who were consulted on the subject - among them Wyllys Terry, Walter Camp, George Adee, Walter Badger, and Sam Bremner - were opposed to the scheme; and their opposition seems to have converted all those who had previously inclined the other way. Like the chicken who was convinced that the sky was falling, when a rose leaf dropped upon her back, the dim suspicion of an "alliance" between Harvard and Princeton...
What Harvard will do in the matter remains to be seen. Another mass meeting will certainly be held to decide what shall be done; and Princeton also must be heard from before we can do anything. Now, indeed, O Yalensians, have we cause for plotting. Shall we return to the fold or form a league with Columbia and allow Yale to win the championship of nothing? Wait...
...captain of the '85 and '86 nines of the Boston Latin School; McKean, who played first base on the Nassau nine of New Hampshire. For second base - Linn of the Louisbergs; S. M. Sturgis, a member of no regular team; Stedman, English High School of Boston; Rublee of Groton, Mass. For third base - Bates, who has played on the Williston Academy and on the Newton High teams; Davis, from Buffalo, N. Y. For short stop - Jones of Columbus, O.; S. Sexton of Hopkinson's School, Boston; Washburn of Worcester, Mass...