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...next term the new Osborne Recitation Hall will be ready occupation. The need of more proper rooms for lectures and recitations has been felt and this building will meet all the requirements, With this new hall and a gymnasium under way of construction two long wished for things seem all but obtained...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Letter. | 11/30/1889 | See Source »

...submits to us a proposition for a dual league, it will be well enough to consider the matter. But to do so now surely puts us in an attitude undignified and cowardly, gives Princeton an undeserved snub, and secures for us her enmity and absolutely nothing else whatever. We seem to forget that so long as the Yale-Princeton game occurs in New York on Thanksgiving day, it will remain the great event of the year, the one that brings in most money to the athletic associations of the colleges competing, the one the great athletes who compete or look...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communications. | 11/27/1889 | See Source »

...Yale men seem to be very shy about expressing any opinion in regard to Harvard's withdrawal from the football league, but Captain Gil has intimated that a mass-meeting of the students will be held in a day or so at which the matter will be thoroughly discussed and Yale's action in the matter will be made known...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Comments on Harvard's Withdrawal. | 11/23/1889 | See Source »

...motion was discussed fully and from the words of the speakers it was evident that a good many, both graduates and undergraduates, were of the opinion that immediate action would be inexpedient. Still the opinion of the majority seemed to be that Harvard should take some definite stand against professionalism in college athletics, and that the best means to attain the desired end was to withdraw unconditionally from the football league. Objections to offering to form a dual league with Yale were raised and were answered by the argument that Harvard in her stand against professionalism should not refuse...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mass Meeting Last Night. | 11/21/1889 | See Source »

...improvement is to come. It is to be regretted that the committee could not have gone even farther, and confined athletics simply to undergraduates, but this obviously could not be done, for it would be impossible to impugns the motives of graduates returning to college. The present rules therefore seem the wisest and best that could have been made under the circumstances...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/6/1889 | See Source »