Word: yalelies
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...Magenta] know their own business, but it is hard for us to see why they did not cut entirely loose from the Advocate's style, and try a different field. Contending with the Advocate on its own ground is fighting against heavy odds. But Harvard must be Harvard." - Yale Courant...
Harvard shall be Yale for the nonce...
...interest in Base Ball for the Freshmen usually culminates in their annual match with Yale. These matches have for the lastfive years proved disastrous to us, and now it seems quite the fashion to tacitly allow that Yale will win the Freshman match, as a matter of course, and Harvard the University match...
There is no good reason for this, and no reason whatever why Harvard cannot furnish as good material from her Freshman Class as Yale from hers. After each defeat of the last three years some reasons for the poor play of particular members have been given and received as sufficient, but the most obvious reasons have been a want of practice in playing strange clubs, and a lack of feeling of any responsibility on the part of the Class. Should the present negotiations prove successful, the first reason will be entirely removed. The second can only be removed...
...Little Yale Record thinks our existence was rumored as a probable event in the issue of the Advocate next preceding our first number. It hints also its belief - which is a very natural one, and therefore excusable - that our paper is the offspring of a pique on the part of the Sophomores toward the Advocate...