Word: yale
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...freshman class to the number of about sixty responded to the call for a mass meeting last evening in Massachusetts Hall. The meeting was called to order by President Rantoul who stated that its object was to consider a constitution to govern Harvard-Yale freshman athletics. Mr. L. McKim Garrison, L. S., in behalf of several graduates presented the constitution. He called attention to the present unsatisfactory state of athletic contests, the constant disputes about membership of teams and the frequent indefiniteness of the results. These difficulties, he said, the constitution was intended to obviate. The freshmen then proceeded...
...most desirable change has been made in the selling of tickets for the Yale game by permitting one person to buy not more than ten. There has been much dissatisfaction and inconvenience caused by the purchase of large blocks by the first buyers, sometimes for friends but more often for speculation. Persons who have delayed getting tickets have often been compelled to pay large premiums to get any seats at all. It is probably impossible to abolish wholly this evil of speculation, but by the new rule it will be reduced to a minimum. The effort to make the chances...
...CRIMSON takes pleasure in announcing that the class of '92 has adopted a constitution which, if ratified by Yale, promise to settle in a most satisfactory manner all difficulties in Harvard-Yale freshman athletics. The complete constitution is at present withheld from publication as Yale has not yet received it and has had no opportunityto act upon it. It will be published in tomorrow's CRIMSON...
Reserved seat tickets for the Yale-Harvard game, June 22d on sale at Leavitt and Peirce...
...bowing of the Yale seniors as the president makes his exit from the chapel after the morning service is one of those customs peculiar to college men, and one whose origin is a matter of mere conjecture. The Yale News says of the custom: "It is believed to have been introduced at the time the college was founded, and to have been taken from a practice common at that time in New England churches for the congregation at the close of the service to rise and bow as the parson passed down the aisle. This practice of our Puritan ancestors...