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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that undoubtedly will be of the utmost advantage to our university boating interests as adding experience to men while in their freshmen year and then giving the university boat its quota of men after the race of freshmen year is over. The whole matter can be made a perfect success only by honest hard work, and the best of financial support on the part of all the class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Yale-Harvard Freshman Race. | 4/14/1886 | See Source »

...Sophomore Society is much to be praised for its enterprise in getting up the theatricals which take place to day. We learn from the management that the affair is to be a financial success, - those who attended Thursday's rehearsal attest to the literary and musical charms of the piece - no more than was to be expected from the talented gentlemen who have composed it; and we are sure that the audience which assembles to-day to hear the two performances will be amused and delighted. The University Boat Club - and the college, (for upon the latter falls the burden...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/3/1886 | See Source »

...school raise their voices in tones of pious horror, and a great journal denounces Cambridge as a nest of corruption, scepticism and philosophic indifference, the college itself is waxing in greatness year by year. Borne by the impulse of her own audacity, Harvard is on a tidal wave of success. From the present chaos of change there bids fair to be evolved something that America does not possess - a great university. - Cincinnati Telegram...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Note and Comment. | 4/2/1886 | See Source »

...News thus seeks to arouse the Yale freshmen in matters of base-ball: "If the freshmen hope for success in the opening game with Harvard, which will be played in New Haven this year, they must go to work in earnest. The Harvard freshmen will have an unusually strong nine, as may be judged from the fact that the change battery of the university nine belongs to the freshman class. We would not prophecy such an unprecedented thing as defeat for a Yale freshman nine, but would warn '89 of the disgrace which would fall on them if through carelessness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/1/1886 | See Source »

...change was made by which the present dynasty came into power. On the whole, things have run along pretty smoothly under its administration, - complaints have been comparatively infrequent, and no small amount of satisfaction has been expressed at the efforts of the management to make the association a success. But now the steward - for, in lack of more definite information, he must be considered responsible - has allowed matters to fall into a condition which calls for immediate and sharp comment. A communication on another page shows plainly enough the existing state of things, and it is safe to say that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/27/1886 | See Source »

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