Word: news
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...publish to day an editorial from the Yale News on the speech recently made by Mr. Beecher on "fighting the referee." The News declares that the speech has been misunderstood, and that on consideration it has appeared that nothing which would put Yale in a bad light was intended, only a reminder that perhaps the eleven would be compelled to play with a hostile referee, and in that case it would be necessary to fight him. The event proved that these fears were ungrounded, consequently the desperate expedient was not resorted...
...whenever it comes in contact with us; and reconsideration's or retractions coming weeks after the trouble complained of, will be viewed through the vista which time accords, and consequently cannot have the weight of immediate denial. Glad as we should be to consider the position of the News tenable, we cannot do so, nor can we unite with it in considering the reported words of the Yale captain as "a petty matter." At Harvard such a thing would be called not petty but gigantic boorishness...
...attractions visit Boston, the book will in reality be a review of the American stage for the past year. Paris and London have reviews of this character, but this is the first one ever issued in America. It is written by Mr. Charles E. L. Wingate, Harvard '83, formerly news editor of the Harvard Herald, now of the Boston Journal, and that it will prove a success is evidenced by the comments of the various Boston papers upon the plan. The Boston Herald says...
Recently the following challenge was sent to the Yale News by the Harvard Cricket Association...
According to the News, a tambourine and snare drum have been added to the Yale orchestra...