Word: various
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...After various questions and much debate as to ways and means of promoting interest in cricket throughout the college, the meeting adjourned...
...tumble prize-fight. A football game is not marked by such butchery, nor is it devoid of manly and courageous characteristics. The author opens with the question of the legitimacy of its being called the American game of foot-ball rather than the Rugby because the students of the various American colleges 'have developed it into a game differing in many of its phases from any of its English prototypes;' and the writer goes on to describe the distinguishing characteristics of the Rugby, Association and our regular college game. The leading feature of the Rughy 'was that the player might...
...kind ever created. When it becomes known that the college has funds to this amount to distribute, there will undoubtedly be a sudden increase in the number of poor students desirous of making Harvard the scene of their labors. As previously stated, the aggregate income of the various college professorship funds is about $80,000. Counting the income from all the scholarships, the loan funds and the beneficiary funds, the college as trustee is able to give to poor students over $300,000 a year. From this it would appear that the benefactors of Harvard consider that it is quite...
...team was to have played with Wesleyan on Thursday, but rain prevented. A series of games is now being arranged with various teams in this vicinity. The game with Harvard this fall will be played in New Haven and the great Yale-Princeton game will probably be played in New York at the polo grounds unless the Princeton faculty interfere as they did last year. In that case Princeton will doubtless make a strong effort to have the game played on their grounds, but this Yale will never consent to do, as she played there last year only on condition...
...Yale News argues that the officers of the freshman athletic teams should be appointed by the officers of the various University athletic associations. It says that this would do away with the disorders attendant on the first meetings of the class and as a result much better men would hold the offices of the freshman athletic teams...