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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...SALE. - A well bred saddle pony 7 years old, gray, weighs 700 lbs. Warranted sound and kind and thoroughly broken to harness...
...Yale base ball management has at last asked Murphy, captain of Yale's base ball nine last year, to play this season and resume his old position at short stop. He will cover second base for a time but later will be placed at short stop and Bliss will move into centre field...
...early hours of the evening. The only regret in the past has been that there has not been more of it. This year there has been less than usual. Thoughtlessness or indifference of the few in authority and not the general lack of interest has put the good old custom in the back-ground. The time from half past six to eight is leisure for a large part of the students. It is seldom, if ever, that the yard is more filled than then. It is the one time in the evening when men would gather most willing to listen...
...Foote is regarded as the coming tennis player of Yale. He won the finals in the Andover-Exeter tennis contest last year, and has won every set he has played during his course at Yale in this spring's tournament. Butterworth is the old football player. Foote will meet. A. J. Sharly, of Somerville, Mass., last year's Yale champion, and play for the graduates' cup in a few days...
...gravity of the offence will admit the tardy student even after this late hour. This regulation and one forbidding students to walk up the river in the morning, and another for bidding students to walk on "The High" in study hours, without cap and gown are relics of the old system of police regulations which used to exist in all colleges and universities in olden times. These last two regulations are what we might call dead letters on the Oxford statue book; no observance is paid them. They are good examples of a certain class of petty rules and regulations...