Word: dispatch
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...York, both overseers. The writers of these letters state that they are in favor of a dual league, but that the time chosen for action is not opportune. A committee should be appointed to consider the question fully, and to take final action. Mr. Leeds '76, then read two dispatches from New Haven, one to the effect that Harvard should act immediately and propose to Yale a dual league in all branches of athletics; the second dispatch explained Yale's demand for immediate action and was that Yale will hold a mass-meeting tonight and will then resign before...
Harvard's evidence is a dispatch from Ames to H. F. Billings, jr., manager of the Virginia Brights nine of Chicago, and an affidavit of a certain Paul Buckley, in which he swears to Ames being a professional ball player. The dispatch and the affidavit are overbatim as follows...
...dispatch has been sent from London to the associated press announcing that the boat race between Cambridge and Yale University has been fixed approximately for April 15. President Snipe of the Yale navy and Captain Woodruff deny this positively. They say that Yale has not even challenged Cambridge. In spite of this assertion another dispatch announces that Oxford also will be ready to row Yale, and that the Cambridge crew is hard at work training...
...report published in yesterday's issue of the CRIMSON stating that Harvard's representative, Mr. Sears, had won the championship in singles in the tennis tournament, although premature, was nevertheless destined to prove true. The error was, that in reading the hurried and hasty dispatch received by the CRIMSON late night before last, the fact that Columbia's representative had yet to play Mr. Sears, was entirely overlooked. But "all's well that ends well" and the thanks and congratulations of the college are due Mr. Sears for his splendid work at New Haven...
...They join the pirates, and after being duly sworn in, concoct a plan of escape. Meanwhile the girls who were to have been Constance's bridesmaids appear on the deck in bathing dresses, having swum to the ship. Several very pretty dances follow, and then Dawdle manages to dispatch Rooney, who has also come aboard in disguise, to the captain of the coast guard at Crowbay. Rooney has also been entrusted with the terms of ransom proposed by A. Marlin Spike to Boggs for his daughter. The soldiers make their appearance and take possession of the ship. The act closes...