Word: wolcott
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Lieutenant-Governor Wolcott's speech at the dinner of the Yale Alumni Association of Boston indicates what seems to us to be the most reasonable attitude on the football question. His criticism of the game is as severe as any that has appeared during the current discussion, but he differs radically from President Eliot in believing that the objectionable elements of the game as played last season are mere incidents which can be avoided, - that they are not in any sense essential to the highest development of the sport...
...well known Harvard graduates, Lieutenant Governor Roger Wolcott '70, and Civil Service Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt '80, the one at the annual dinner of the Yale Alumni Association of Boston and the other at the Harvard Club of Washington, gave their views on the football question Thursday night...
...Wolcott's remarks, so far as they related to football, were as follows...
...arrangements have been nearly completed for the meeting which will be held in Sanders Theatre tomorrow night to welcome new students in the University. The speakers will be President Eliot, Lieutenant-Governor Wolcott, Mayor Bancroft, and E. H. Warren '95. After the meeting a reception will be held in Memorial Hall. Refreshments will be served as last year. The meeting will begin at eight o'clock...
...April 7 H. M. Wheelwright '94, R. B. Beals '94, and G. Crompton '96, of Harvard, and Wolcott, Wade, Brooks and Wright, of Yale, met in Springfield to make arrangements for the coming track athletic meeting at New Haven. The total weight of the hammer for the future was fixed at sixteen pounds. Starters in the bicycle race who overstep the mark are hereafter to be subject to penalty...