Word: press
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Owing to an accident to the printing press yesterday morning, yesterday's issue of the CRIMSON was not ready until 10 o'clock. Subscribers may obtain copies by applying at Amee's or at Leavitt and Peirce...
...dispatch has been sent from London to the associated press announcing that the boat race between Cambridge and Yale University has been fixed approximately for April 15. President Snipe of the Yale navy and Captain Woodruff deny this positively. They say that Yale has not even challenged Cambridge. In spite of this assertion another dispatch announces that Oxford also will be ready to row Yale, and that the Cambridge crew is hard at work training...
...next place, our management, wishing to bring about the game with Yale if it were possible to do so, telegraphed the following message to Captain Corbin early yesterday morning: "Would you be willing to play even in New Haven? Answer at once." Up to the time of going to press no reply had been received, which, in itself is an act of egregious discourtesy on Yale's part. It is too late now for the eleven to go to New Haven, therefore there will be no game this year...
...intended that the appended letters should be first published in the CRIMSON, but by some mistake they were given to the Associated Press. The one dated Nov, 2, 1887, is a copy of the letter written by Yale to Harvard in which Yale agrees that the game in New York should be looked upon as a game played in New Haven, and in which Yale also agrees to play in Cambridge this year if Harvard should so decide...
...regret that any discussion of the Yale-Harvard foot-ball game should have been started in the daily press. It has been our aim to confine all such discussions, as far as possible, to the managers of the respective teams. But charges have been made against the managers of our team which honor compels us to refute. It is evident that Yale entirely misunderstands our position in the matter; therefore, in order to clear up all such misunderstanding, we will proceed to examine the facts of the case...