Word: y
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...following is from the pen of the N. Y. correspondent of the Philadelphia Press: "All the fast ball games in which Harvard and Columbia took part were contested conrteously; there is no reason why an athlete should not be a gentleman." He adds that one of Yale's famous captains left Yale long ago and is now "Professor of ornamental profanity in some western fresh-water college; but his influence remains after...
...Y. Cohen, '81, is the New York correspondent for the San Francisco Evening Post...
...Honi soit qui mal y pense...
...rather fast young fellows - graduates from Connecticut colleges - that come to get an education, you know; but they rarely get beyond Freshman year. But as for this little matter of spirituous imbibition, you must concede that the New Haven students are infinitely worse than we are. W(h)y, a-l-e is the very name their college goes by wherever it is known; and porter is the fountain of their life, their stay, their prop, their patron deity...
...Spirit of November 19 appears an article headed "Collegiate Amateurs," which conclusively proves that the records of 10 sec. for 100-yards, and 50 1/4 sec. for the 1/4-mile claimed to have been made at the Spring Meeting of the St. Lawrence University of Canton, N. Y., on May 29 last, were made by a professional, named Fitzgibbons, who it appears is, or at that time was, a member of the University. As there was some doubt expressed at the time in regard to the records, we did not see fit to allow them as the best college records...