Word: yales
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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COLUMBIA beat Yale in the annual foot-ball match which took place last week. This, we believe, is the first victory of Columbia over Yale, at foot-ball, in several years...
...poor that they can hardly afford to buy new boats; so that whenever any changes are proposed, they must necessarily be looked at from the impecunious point of view, and if it is concluded that such changes necessitate any uncommon expense, they cannot be made. For instance, Harvard and Yale wished to pull with coxswains, but Dartmouth and Cornell are too poor, their delegates say, to make the change; so Harvard and Yale must yield to the necessities of the others. Harvard and Yale, again, wish to row with coxswains in eight-oar boats; but so far is such...
...disputes, and in connection with which there is a necessary outlay of money and time that might as well, and had better be saved, certainly no one can question the claim that Harvard has fair grounds for withdrawing from the Association. But when it is added that Harvard and Yale, although having greater numbers of students than the other colleges, and drawing so many more spectators, can but count as an equal of a "university" like Hamilton; that, owing to the difference between the entrance examinations of Harvard and the others, and the preparatory study necessitated by these examinations, Harvard...
...least until chance shall give the victory to some crew as good as those she has sent for the last two years, since she can hardly expect to send better ones than these. "And, after all, it is strange that Harvard should wish to row again with Yale alone, against whom she has made so many charges of foul play and ungentlemanly conduct"; and this argument under other circumstances would really have some weight, but at present it is useless. It is expected that Princeton's captain, who wishes to withdraw, will succeed in persuading his college to join Harvard...
...BROOKS SCHOOL, Cleveland, which promises to rival Exeter and the Boston Latin, dedicated its new school-building, December I, on which occasion Rev. Phillips Brooks delivered an address, and a letter from President Eliot was read. The school prepares for Harvard and Yale. The master is White, Harvard '70, and the assistants, Nash, Harvard '68; Roberts, Harvard '74; and Harding, Yale...