Word: yales
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...last year to proving that higher education in America tends to suicide, intends, during the coming winter, to expose the total depravity, to put it mildly, which exists in colleges that have not "about them the influence of the true [Roman Catholic] religion." "Frequently," says the Index, "students of Yale, of Harvard, of Rutgers, of Cornell, fall into the clutches of the law, and as a consequence are treated just as their offence merits. Generally the charge is 'drunk and disorderly,' and the customary alternative of ten dollars and costs, or ten days, is the last resource. This we know...
...Freshman foot-ball team have had their pictures taken with a foot-ball in front of them with 'Champion' on it. Champions of what? Their only victory was over the Grammar School." - Yale Record...
...should the Record object to this perfectly innocent and justifiable action of the Freshmen? They have only followed the action of the Yale University team, which the Record defended...
...YALE'S claim to the foot-ball championship is disputed, and with good reason, by Princeton. Says the Princetonian: "This fall, we have beaten Harvard and Columbia, and played a drawn game with Yale. Yale has not played Columbia, refused to meet Harvard, and had one drawn game with us. This gives us two victories, to none for Yale; and on this record we can and do claim the championship for 1877. It is true that Yale defeated Harvard, Princeton, and Columbia last year; but this fall their team has not won a match from any of these colleges; hence...
...Yale insisted that in the game with Princeton, only goals should count; the result showed two touch-downs for Yale...