Word: news
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Yale News strongly urges the Bicycle club to accept the challenge of the Harvard Bicycle club to a race, on the grounds that it will revive interest in bicycling at Yale more than any other inducement, and afford invaluable training for the intercollegiate games...
...Yale News gives some interesting statistics in regard to the scholarship of the athletic men at New Haven. The opinion has been prevalent in many communities that college athletes in general have an exceedingly low standing. This idea, however, has been more than once disproved during the last three or four years by the yearly reports given officially from many of the largest colleges in the country. The Yale News has interested itself in the matter, and the following figures are the results of investigations in regard to the honor men in the senior and junior classes at Yale...
...detailed criticism of the Yale crew in Tuesday's Yale News closes with the following general comment on the candidates: "As a crew no two men row like, they show entire lack of the distinctive features of the stroke, a general tendency to swing away from oar on catch and toward oar on recovery, necessity for a brace up all around and stricter attention to business...
...that Yale does not claim the boating championship of American colleges. Cornell, the Sun says, defeated Bowdoin on Lake Quinsigamond, July 5, 1887, by two feet. The argument advanced by the Spirit of the Times, if supplemented by this fact clearly gives the championship to Cornell. Certainly the Yale News and the Harvard Crimson, in endorsing the statements of the Spirit of the Times make this concession. If Yale does not now claim the championship nothing now remains to be said about the matter...
...From an editorial in the Cornell Sun we clip the following sentences: When the formal news this declination is received, the commodore of the Cornell navy will have in his possession the written confession of the crews of the two great eastern colleges acknowledging the superiority of our eight Yale's refusal to row is, however, one of the most unsportsmanlike acts ever known in the world of intercollegiate athletics Yale claims the championship of American colleges in boating. By all laws, written and unwritten, the champion of any branch of athletics is always bound to accept any challenges...