Word: news
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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From the Yale News we learn that the enthusiastic supporters of the blue have organized a club for polo playing on roller skates. Coupled with this report comes the alarming statement that this new departure is made with a view of bringing one more championship to New Haven, for we are informed that a strong team has already been put in training, and that a challenge has been sent to the Harvard Polo Club. But this time, though it is evident that Yale is hunting for one more scalp wherewithal to complete the mural decorations of its wigwam, Harvard must...
...their unknown detractor in the Boston Herald, it seems no more than proper to say a few words about this dispute. To Harvard men it has doubtless seemed unfortunate that it should be given such prominence in the press of Boston. While we fully believe in the dissemination of news, college as well as general, through the medium of the press, there is nothing more deplorable than the tendency of that medium to emphasize and make capital out of personal attacks. Nothing is so strong a reminder in ordinary times of the execrable habit of mud-slinging and vilification...
...Wilder is probably the oldest undergraduate in the world. He entered the University of Vermont with the class of '32, but was compelled to leave on account of ill health. He has recently entered '85 in that institution, and hopes to take his degree next June.-[Yale News...
...would call the attention of the shooting men of the college to the movements of their rivals at Yale. From the report of a recent meeting, taken from the Yale News, we learn that a new gun club has been formed among the students of the Sheffield Scientific School, which bids fair to become an important ally, if not a strong rival, to the existing Yale Gun Club. The new sportsman's club starts with a good membership, and under energetic management. It has already secured a complete outfit for shooting, including traps for shotgun, and butts for rifle practice...
...following extracts are taken from an open letter on the foot ball championship published in the New York Post and later in the Yale News, over the signature of Captain Richards of the Yale eleven. He says...