Word: news
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...crowd at Princeton on Saturday were returning from the ball-grounds, they were greeted with the Princeton cheer in intensified tones proceeding from a large phonograph in the scientific building, and later in the day a drum helped the students make things lively in celebrating their victory over Yale.- News...
Between $2,000,000 and $3,000,000 has been left Harvard College, by Jacob P. Jones, a retired Philadelphia iron merchant.- Yale News...
...writer for the News complains that after choosing an "optional" a Yale man must leave the hour of recitation to the faculty, while at Harvard one may choose the hour when he wishes to recite. The Harvard system thus provides for the interests of athletics, by enabling the members of the nine or crew to get together for practice without interfering with recitations. Yale is handicapped in this respect, and in behalf of athletics the writer urges a change...
Apropos the disgraceful scene at the Brown-Yale game, the Yale News thus coments on Brown's methods of cheering: "It took the form of hooting, stamping on the floor of the grand stand and calling the players names; the occasions for demonstration being pitches, strikes, called balls and Yale errors, indiscrimimately with points scored by Brown. The Brown men boasted that it was very dishonorable conduct and said they learned it in New Haven. Now we have yet to learn that it is not a point of honor with Yale men not to cheer at opponent's errors...
...very interesting little book has been issued by J. F. McClure of Cambridge. It is a history of American College Journalism, and will well repay a reading.- Yale News...