Word: yales
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Unlike the Harvard match, there was a noticeable lack of the friendly and gentlemanly spirit which characterized that contest. From the beginning to the end of the game on Saturday, there seemed to pervade the Yale-men a desire to injure and "lay up" our players on every occasion when there was no chance of detection. We were in hopes of playing against gentlemen when we met Yale, but they sadly disappointed us, for their conduct throughout closely resembled that of pugilists, their chief object being, apparently, to win the game by foul or fair means. We do not make...
...following cheerful prophecy appears in the columns of the Yale Lit: "'Lampy' has deserted us; he is grown up now, but, if we are not mistaken, he will return a wiser and a sadder fool...
Word was sent to Columbia that, as it would be necessary, in the event of a race, for the same Harvard crew to row Columbia which was to row Yale, Harvard would like to make the same agreement with Columbia as with Yale in regard to the men eligible for the crew. By this agreement candidates for the degrees A. B., B. S., Ph. B., LL. B., B. D., M. D., Ph. D., and A. M., are eligible to the crew; but candidates for the five lastnamed degrees must previously have taken the degree...
...however, further desired, under plea of inferiority in point of numbers, to include among men eligible for her crew members of the Schools of Law and Medicine who were graduates neither of Columbia nor of any other college. Harvard thought that such an exception to the rule adopted by Yale and herself looked toward including in the crews a class of oarsmen whom it was particularly desirable to exclude, namely, the men who might enter some department of the University for the purpose of joining the crew...
...Columbia a decided advantage over Harvard, - an advantage which our record for the past five or six years has not placed us in a position to yield. Accordingly, a reply was made to Columbia that she could have no advantage which Harvard did not have under her agreements with Yale. Columbia replied that she would "row only a university race," and she desired an answer to her original challenge. An answer was immediately sent, - a refusal...