Word: news
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale News argues that the officers of the freshman athletic teams should be appointed by the officers of the various University athletic associations. It says that this would do away with the disorders attendant on the first meetings of the class and as a result much better men would hold the offices of the freshman athletic teams...
...undergraduates were astounded on Wednesday by the appearance of the members of the Skull and Bones Society, with their badge pins on their breasts instead of on their neckties, where according to the old tradition they could alone be worn. Explaining this custom and the change, the New Haven News says: "Alongside of it has grown up a system of actions and many ways dubbed 'poppycock' by the college world at large. This found manifestation in many ways, all marked by an assumption of mystery and standoffishness in everything that related to the societies in any way, however distant...
Harvard University will soon have a "Hastings Hall," to cost $250,000, built by the Hastings family, which has been represented there in every generation except one for over 200 years.-Yale News...
...field for exercise during the first week or two. At Harvard and Princeton, the active participation in lacrosse by many of their best foot-ball players give them skill and exercise which are missed here, so that especial efforts should be made to keep up our position. - Yale News...
...freshmen speak in high terms of the gentlemanly manner in which they were entertained by their opponents of Wednesday. Perhaps an editorial which appeared in the Yale News of Wednesday morning had something to do with Yale's refraining from that discourteous and unfair treatment which characterized her tactics not many years since...