Word: y
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Acta has opened a crusade against lacrosse at Columbia. Here is philippic number one: "On the 29th of April Columbia will be beaten at lacrosse by the N. Y. University. The score, provided the game is played long enough, will be about 50 to 0 in favor of N. Y. University. This will be merely a rehearsal for a game with Harvard on May 6th, when the score on our side will surely be as much as 0, with Harvard two or three hundred more. By the way, where does the money come from to support this gift...
POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., April...
...Y...
...means do not play the first game at New Haven. Do not be mastered by the superstition so common here, that any one in blue stockings, with a large "Y" on his breast, is invincible. '85 has a great opportunity before her to make a reputation, and we all hope she will make the most of it. May she prove that Harvard is not always to be defeated in her freshman games with Yale...
...College students, a Cambridge correspondent of the Providence Journal is made to say : "Life was a round of pleasure, a constant succession of parties, sermons, receptions, five o'clock teas, and similar mild dissipations." It is reasonable to suppose that the correspondent wrote "germans" and not "sermons." - [Times, N. Y.] Without the correction the description is more near the truth...