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...Yale. The facts in the case are as follows : On Oct. 18 Yale sent us a challenge, and on Oct. 25 we acknowledged the receipt of the challenge, and said that the matter would be taken into consideration. Dec. 10 Yale sent us a letter in which an answer to her challenge was requested before Jan. 18. Last year after Yale had accepted our challenge we could do nothing with her in regard to some of the arrangements, one of which was the manner of starting the boats. This controversy was finally settled by Harvard's giving...
...association are not so ambitious as to render them unattainable. nor are they on the other hand so unimportant as to render their success or failure a matter of no consequence. The establishment of a corresponding secretary at each of the colleges, whose duty it will be to answer promptly and accurately any inquiries which may be made by any paper belonging to the association, will satisfy a long-felt need in college journalism. The advantages of such an institution will be more especially felt at a time when a matter of inter-collegiate interest is under discussion, and when...
...recent action of the Yale graduate advisory committee, which has some control over her athletics, in regard to Harvard's delay in answering the challenge of the boat club, has caused much amusement and some indignation at Harvard. The fact is that this was simply the result of an unavoidable and unintentional delay in holding meetings of the Harvard advisory committee. There has been and is now no intention whatever to decline the challenge, and a formal answer will be sent as soon as several preliminary questions are settled between the committees of the two colleges, the most notable...
...change is the sign of an era of mildness and courtesy on her part. About two weeks ago the News, in its hilarity over foot-ball success, being in want of something to rail at, stood up and cried out against the managers of our cew. They wanted an answer then and there, and would have it; but when they were reminded that last year our challenge was not finally accepted until long after this time of the year, and that the delay was necessary and unavoidable, they have changed their tactics. Now their advisory committee have decided that Harvard...
George J. Rice, ex-president of the Utica, Ithaca & Elmira Railroad Company, has been held in $20,000 bonds to answer to the charges of fraudulent hypothecation of stock and for forgery and larceny...