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...HAVEN, CONN., Nov. 13. - The autumn meeting of the Yale Corporation was held this afternoon. The chief business was the adoption of a complete new system of commencement exercises, and the discontinuance of the valedictory and salutatory. The graduating theses of the Law and Scientific Schools and the Townsend orations of the academic department will be held as usual, and a new officer who will be known as "orator" will present the candidates for degrees to the President and Corporation. Classical music will be introduced and a trained chorus of male voices will be selected from the University Glee Club...
...HAVEN, CONN., Nov. 13. - In the secret practice of the Yale football eleven this afternoon the 'varsity and second teams played full time halves for the first time this season. Ray Tompkins and Billy Rhodes will assist in the work of training the team for the big games. The last practice game of the season will be played here tomorrow afternoon with the Chicago Athletic team as opponents. Mills and L. Hinkey are being played on the 'varsity team in the positions left vacant by the illness of Bass and Greenway, and are both doing good work...
...Yale Shooting Club hereby challenges the Harvard Gun Club to a match to be held Friday, November twenty-third, at the Colt Gun Club grounds, Hartford, Conn., provided these can be obtained. The same conditions as usual must govern the match, namely, five men teams, thirty keystone targets per man, three traps at three unknown angles, and American Association rules...
...HAVEN, CONN., Nov. 4. - Manager Cable of the Yale football team returned to college today after a conference with the Princeton management in New York. He says that Dec. 1 is the date of the Yale - Princeton game beyond the possibility of a doubt. The managers of the rival teams have under consideration offers from Ambrose Park and Eastern Park, Brooklyn, and Manhattan Field and Berkeley Oval, New York City, for the game, but are undecided which to accept. They will meet again this week to settle the ground question...
...HAVEN, CONN., Oct. 31. - The football game between Yale and the Volunteers of New York today resulted in a victory for Yale by the large score of 42 to 0. Yale started in with a rush and made 32 points right away, but in the second half the Yale backs were instructed to "experiment," and the only scoring done was by Letton, who raised two goals from the field, duplicating the feat of Thorne, who had kicked two goals from the field in the first half...