Word: yale
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...SERIES of papers on American student-life have appeared in Die Gegenwart. The author, Mr. Otto Gross, selecting Harvard as the representative college, calls her the oldest and most renowned of American colleges, and Yale her Tochteranstalt. These are almost the only true statements which he makes. His pictures of college life are even falser than the Herald's, and must have been taken from "Student Life at Harvard" or derived from a correspondence with Dr. F-h-b-r. Here is one of the conversations...
...most amusing statement of all is that the difference between Harvard and Yale is shown by the fact that the treasure of Harvard is Long-fellow, whereas that of Yale is the geologist, Dr. Dana. We wish that Mr. Gross was right, but the fact is that Longfellow is a graduate of Bowdoin...
...Football match with Yale occurs to-morrow at New Haven...
...YALE held her Fall Regatta October 2. The first event was a barge race between '80, '81, and '82; '80 won, with '81 second. Another barge race followed between a picked Dunham Six and '83. The Freshmen pulled well and steadily the whole distance, winning easily by five lengths...
...nothing. The Freshmen played an exceedingly poor game throughout, Lee's fine rushes being the only redeeming features of their playing. We hope they will take this game as a warning, and practise daily, especially in passing, as in their present form they can never hope to defeat Yale, '83, this fall...