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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...victory brings with it disagreeable consequences; that every bright cloud, so to speak, has its dark lining. Can not an individual be a freshman and a man at once? If these would-be tough freshmen were mature enough to realize how silly such performances are, it is safe to say they would not disgrace their class and themselves again. It is unfortunate that when newspapers like the Record are ever on the watch for some foolish scrape to magnify, these childish freshmen should be so willing to furnish opportunities. Nipety-two has made an honorable name through the efforts...
...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...
...wish to say in reply to a communication published in another column that the delay complained of in the organization of a freshmen glee club has been intentional for reasons looking to the interests of such club. We are informed that the candidates who have been chosen will be called together this week and an organization effected immediately...
...captain and members of the team itself we would say that the college recognizes and appreciates their whole-hearted efforts and hard work throughout the foot-ball season. It is naturally a disappointment to them, as to us, not to meet their old antagonists, but they have done the best they could, and we thank them just as much as if they had won the championship. Their faithful training and solid, hard work have set an example which future teams would do well to follow...
...Yale rests her case solely on the constitution of the foot-ball association, and if any change is made it must be by vote of the association and not a single college. Harvard's peremptory demand that the game be played in Cambridge is very extraordinary to say the least. The Gill-Beecher letter, on which Harvard founds her claim, was merely the private opinion of two members of the university, and was never intended as an agreement binding the college: but even if it was, the later action of the two colleges, agreeing unconditionally to play in New York...