Word: news
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...YALE NEWS...
...Yale News publishes a lengthy account of the system of undergraduate management in Memorial Hall, as suggestive of improvements that might be made over the system in force at the Yale Commons...
...Yale News finds occasion for complaint in the lack of support given to the Mott Haven team this year. "Seldom has a Yale athletic team been so severely handicapped by having but a small number of candidates as has the present Mott Haven squad up to this time. Few of the old men have reported, and with the exception of some freshmen, scarcely a new man with any experience has attended the daily practice at the gymnasium. Yale's comparatively recent advance in this branch of athletics is due almost entirely to the faithful work of her teams and coaches...
...feel that we must explain through this column the reason for the absence from the CRIMSON of all but the most meagre and unsatisfactory scraps of 'varsity crew news. The closing of the rowing room in the Carey Building was only a preparatory step to excluding all news of the crew from the daily papers and the college world. But news still leaked out from those who rowed on the crew until even such communications were forbidden peremptorily. Mr. Watson's ultimatum was that no news of the crew should be printed unless with his direct consent...
...against all this it might be urged that such secrecy in regard to the crew will not affect Yale's movements in the least. Again, it may be submitted that the absence of any news concerning the coming out of any new men to try for the 'varsity, or of the shifting of the order of the crew, shuts off the whole institution of rowing from the eyes of the University and from popular opinion and enthusiasm; that our crew is no longer a University organization, in the success of which we all feel a personal interest. It is instead...