Word: sicklied
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Some people think Yale and Harvard too young to carry on games simply by precedent and a spirit of fair play. If thirty years of experience is not enough for them, how much do they need? I have talked with several prominent Yale men who appeared to be quite sick and tired of these incessant bickerings about games. I am sure that every man in Yale and Harvard wants to see fair play in every game. Why not trust to their sense of honor and let each organization arrange its contests as it wants them? Let the beaten party challenge...
Captain Allen, of the Yale crew, was sick the latter part of last week, and was unable to row with the candidates for the crew...
...rowing on the 'varsity, four or five of whom will no doubt remain there. As a result of the drain the '90 crew does not look very promising. Of the eight which came in fourth last year only two men are rowing at present. Crehore and Tyson are sick, Vaughan and Sanford are not rowing and Captain Wells has to content himself with the pick of a very much picked over class. He has about ten new men rowing whose abilities it is not at present possible to judge...