Word: various
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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About twenty Yale students of the various classes have for the past few weeks made up their minds that they would gather together the "convicts," or in other words those who had been arrested. So Monday night a banquet was held at Gus Traeger's. There were twenty covers and an elaborate menu. The guests were those who had been arrested and had paid fines during the year. They were not known by name, but by number. They filed into the dining hall in the usual lockstep used in the penitentiaries. Such toasts as "Cops," "Nippers," "Bail," "Jugs," "Bars," "Beak...
...following review of some of the competitors in the various events of the intercollegiate games and the probable winners may not be uninteresting, owing to the increased interest felt in track athletics by the university...
...lack of wind made the surface very smooth, but rowing was rather difficult, owing to the strong ebb-tide that was flowing and which swerved around the various turns at a very rapid rate...
...faults and remedies hitherto unsuspected. The "but" to this, of course, is, first, that subscriptions would fall off - that a man would give ten dollars each to four branches of athletics, where he would refuse forty dollars to the four combined - a doubtful point - and, secondly, that between the various branches of athletics there would always be question - fierily debated - of the propositions of the general fund due to each...
...Comitia Tributa to vote on the said proposition? Why not start the university club on a basis that shall include athletics? Certainly here is a motive for mass meetings of the members at frequent intervals, I mean, to discuss, and what is more, vote upon the management of the various teams and nines and crews. The interest in athletics would be increased, I would not wonder if subscriptions - to use a money-market term - should become easier. A feeling of personal interest in the teams would be fostered, and position on any one of them be glorified. If the managements...