Word: weslyan
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...There is a tradition that Thomas Jefferson was one of its founders. The original chapter has long been defunct, as is now the college itself. Twenty-two chapters now exist, being, in the order of the establishmen, Yale, Harvard, Dartmouth, Union, Bowdoin, Brown, Trinity, Weslyan, Adelbert, Vermont, Amherst, University City of New York, Kenyon, Williams, College City of New York, Middlebury, Coumbia, Rutgers, Hamilton, Hobart, Madison, Cornell. Long before 1825, however, when the earliest of the modern societies was founded, Phi Beta Kappa had ceased to be a secret organization and became, as now, an honorary literary society, to which...
...Yale freshman eleven defeated the Weslyan freshman by a score of 8 to 2. The game was very evenly contested, the ball being several times close to each goal...
Extract from the Yale Record of the morning of the Harvard Weslyan foot ball game: "The Wesleyan team, which developed so rapidly and successfully during the past season, and which plays the 'Yale game' with such enthusiasm, has our best wishes for a credible showing today." Extract from our Monday report of the Harvard Wesleyan game: "Wesleyan took every unfair advantage that they could. Every one of their men was warned, and one of the men was ordered off the field by the referee." We shall look to the next issue of the Record for congratulations to the Wesleyan team...
...Weslyan, Rutgers, Stevens Institute, Columbia and others are talking of organizing a foot ball league...
...Weslyan-Forwards, Gordy, Abbott, Thompson, Smith, Blaine and Wilcox; quarter back, Upham; half backs, Lagues and Beattys; full back, Judd...