Word: yale
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...propeller has been placed upon the Yale launch...
Negotiations are still pending in regard to the postponement of the Yale game; nothing has been definitely decided as to the date. Captain Willard is in communication with the Yale management, and the matter will be arranged at any rate within the next few days...
...play the game before Class Day. So many of the undergraduates leave Cambridge at that time that their absence will be severely felt in the support which the team will receive at the game. Then, too, it is only reasonable for the college to demand that one of the Yale games should be played before next Friday. Only two championship games have been played here the whole season, and although the postponement of Saturday's game was unavoidable, it is but natural for the men in college to demand that one of the remaining games should be played before...
...departure of the 'varsity and freshman crews for New London fore shadows the approach of the greatest event of the year-the race with Yale In spite of the discouragement resulting from the ill-success of the past three years, the crew has worked this year with a faithfulness which has won for it the heartiest support of the university. It is everywhere felt that every effort has been made to send to New London the very best crew that can possibly be got together at Harvard. Neither time, practice nor energy has been spared in the effort...
Besides being the oldest athletic contest between Harvard and Yale the boat race has always held the foremost place. A victory in this event is more coveted than is any contest of the year In it the athletic interest of the year culminates, a victory being the greatest glory and defeat the greatest disappointment. We look forward to the race this year with confidence and well earned victory may check the decline of Harvard's athletic prestige that reawaken the old-time enthusiasm which will bring success in the other branches of athletics next year...