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Captain Hopkins of the Yales has too much to say when he is coaching a man around the bases. [Hartford Courant...
Reports have gotten around that our crew has been rowing in very fast time. From one college paper they pass to another, until by continued reiteration they gain weight and are believed even by some Yale men themselves. To some extent this was the case last year, and many were heard to say after the race why, I thought they had made such good time in practice. Why had they thought so? simply from believing rumors which start originally from no one (but the originator) knows where. The fact was that the crew had never done anything in practice that...
...News mades the following remarks on the recent game with the Beacons: "The nine played a game with the Beacons of Boston on Saturday. The playing all around was very poor and the game characterized by wretched batting on our side. The result, however, was no doubt to a large extent due to the fact that the players were interested so much in the game going on at the other field that they failed to give proper attention to their own work." The score was, Beacon 10, Yale...
...took first place, with Edgerly, who had passed Millard, second. Edgerly, Matthewson and Millard came by the line on the ninth lap in the order named, and very closely bunched. On the completion of this lap Matthewson game up the race, though he did not dismount, and rode slowly around the track. The tenth lap was run with Edgerly, Millard and Norcross in the lead, in the order named. Just after crossing the line on the eleventh lap Edgerly took a severe header, which allowed the other two contestants to pass him, and also put renewed life into Matthewson...
...brass band paraded the principal streets. It was composed of thirteen devils grotesquely dressed, and the remainder of the class in white robes bearing transparencies. A grand funeral car drawn by four horses contained the imaginary corpse. In the middle of the campus the fire was erected, around which a circle was formed, and the remains were burned to ashes amid lugubrious prayers and orations...