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...epithet "scurrilous," applied to the Yale News by one of its older contemporaries of the same place, seems, from the language of that paper with regard to our recent Freshman match with Yale, to be but little too strong. We are told "that there is no doubt that the bull-dozing policy pursued during the game affected the result," which is contradicted in the same sentence by the assertion that "no one. . . . can attribute the disastrous result to these causes." In the item column we are sarcastically told " the thanks of the College are due Harvard for the gentlemanly manner...
...Yale. - The Athletic Sports of this college came off, on May 29, at New Haven. F. W. Brown, '78, won the 100-yards dash in 10 1/4 sec, which is wonderfully fast time. H. L. Livingston, '79, won the half-mile run in 2 min. If this time is correct, and the distance run was 880 yards, it is the fastest amateur time in America by some seconds; and we think, although we have not the records at hand just now, that it is very nearly the best amateur time ever made. Mr. Livingston also won the quarter-mile...
SINCE the summer of 1876 there has been no single-scull race for a championship of two or more American colleges. The interest in boating at Yale and Harvard has been concentrated on the eight-oars, and little or nothing has been said about singles. But now there promises to be a revival of the championship races, and this the H. U. B. C. ought to encourage...
...following letter was received from Mr. Livingston, a brother of Mr. Herman Livingston, of the Yale Crew...
...answer to this communication has been received from New Haven, and the Yale Navy apparently have taken no action in the matter; but it is certainly a desirable thing to have a single-scull race for the championship of the two colleges, and there could be no better time for it than the week of the University race at New London. If any decision in this matter is to be reached this summer it ought to be made at once, to enable the contestants to make the necessary preparations. As Mr. Livingston has taken the first step, it is only...