Word: telegram
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Cornell letter confirming the previous acceptance by telegram of the two years' agreement, arrived yesterday...
...game between the freshman nine and Exeter has been concelled. A telegram was received from Exeter yesterday saying that by an oversight of the Exeter managers two games had been arranged for today, one with the Harvard freshmen at Exeter, and another with Holy Cross at Worcester. The result was that the game with the '98 nine could not be played. The Exeter management has agreed to pay a forfeit for failing to play the game...
...director of the Lick Observatory has received a telegram which announces that the Hon. Edwin Crossley, lately Member of Parliament for Halifax, England, proposes to present to the Lick Observatory his great three foot reflecting telescope, with its dome and all its apparatus complete. Mr. Crossley, himself an enthusiastic amateur astronomer, makes no conditions to his gift, except that his telescope when set up at Mt. Hamilton shall be called the Crossley Reflector and that the expenses of transporting the instrument and dome from England to California shall be borne by Americans...
...station at Kansas City. The Yale clubs came in just as the Harvard clubs were leaving. The Harvard clubs first gave several hearty cheers for the Yale men and the latter responded with equal spirit. The Yale clubs showed their appreciation of the courtesy by sending this telegram, which reached the Harvard clubs during the Chicago concert: "To the Harvard Musical Clubs, - Happy New Year from Yale...
Yale Freshman Game.A telegram received last evening from Yale definitely settles that the Harvard-Yale freshman game will be played on Saturday, December 1, with no members of the 'varsity squad on either eleven. The game will be on Soldiers Field at 2 o'clock...