Word: recording
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...lack of courtesy. If their object was to widen the breach which exists between the two colleges, they were equally well adapted to their purpose. But they have certainly injured the reputation of Yale in other colleges, and it is to be hoped that they have injured the Record among the better classes at Yale...
SEVERAL of the colleges at Oxford and Cambridge have recently had Athletic sports. The time made was as a whole not superior to ours; but the account in the Under-graduates' Journal is so full of typographical errors that it is hardly safe to trust the record. At Lincoln College, Oxford, the best thing was the 150 yard handicap race, which was won in 14 2/5 sec. The high jump was singularly bad, - 4 ft. 7 inches. At Exeter College a half-mile race won in 2 min. 3/5 sec. was the only thing deserving notice...
...last number of the Yale Record contains a great deal of matter in regard to the Harvard-Yale foot-ball game Its tone is so thoroughly offensive that a lengthy review would be as undignified as it would be unpleasant. The rivalry between Harvard and Yale has caused a great deal of jealousy on both sides, and a certain amount of ill-feeling among enthusiastic and narrow-minded partisans is unavoidable. It would have been supposed, however, that neither college would so far forget its dignity as to deliberately insult its guests, had not the Record disdained the forbearance which...
...that of the others, but this is without doubt a false conclusion. The clubs are divided as equally as it is possible to divide them, and the result of the races rowed up to this time indicates that at the end of a long succession of races the record of any one club will not be very much better or very much worse than those of the rest...
...could make. On the other hand, the crew which won this fall was not hard pressed, it had no incentive to do better than it did, though it is quite probable that it might have done better. Under these circumstances it is quite encouraging to compare the record of the two races...