Word: york
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Cornell. The courses have been materially changed and broadened so as to cover more ground; an agricultural experiment station and a weather bureau have been established. Five hundred thousand dollars have been spent upon new buildings during the last year. Of the 1174 students, 708 come from New York state; all states and territories are represented, besides a number of students from Japan, Brazil, Sandwich Islands, and all European countries excepting Austria. Co-education is rapidly growing in favor, and there are 132 ladies attending college...
...club rooms the old Hasty Pudding building now used by the Conference Francaise. Definite arrangements will be made in a few days, and the next meeting, on Monday night, will probably be held there. The club will not contest in the intercollegiate tournament, which will be held at New York on Thanksgiving day. M. J. Bridge, the winner of last year's tournament at Harvard had been invited to represent the club, but he will be unable to attend, and has been decided ineligible for the tournament as he is no longer connected with the university. The following new members...
DEAR SIR.- My consultations with some of our graduates this morning resulted in the following final decision: Harvard must play Yale at New York on Thanksgiving day (?) forfeit their championship game scheduled for that time and place. Yale' position on that question is unapt table and will remain so. Yours truly; WILLIAM H. CORBIN...
DEAR SIR.- Your note of this morning is at hand. By its terms Harvard is obliged to forfeit, and hereby does forfeit, the championship game previously scheduled for New York on Thanksgiving day. We regret that such is the case. Feeling, however, that the season of 1888 would be incomplete without a contest between Yale and Harvard, we therefore offer the following proposition...
...story that has been printed in New York that Yale has challenged the Cambridge, England, crew to an eight-oared race this coming summer, is denied by the management of the Yale crew. The Yale men think favorably of such a race and would undoubtedly cross the water if suitable arrangements could be made. Last year Mr. Oelrichs of New York offered to send the Yale crew to England, but owing to the fact that the English crew had stopped training, the race fell through...