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...academic career. He was a man of rare endowments. From early boyhood his brilliancy of mind and strength of character was marked. Always first as a student in school, College and Law School, he nevertheless found time for much besides study. Whatever interested others in the way of physical sport or social diversion interested him and in everything he excelled. He brought to his work as a teacher and dean a sympathetic nature which readily understood the varied aspirations and interests of the young men under him. They felt him to be, as indeed he was, their friend; and like...
Yesterday's victory over Yale added another to the hard-won major sport championships to the University's credit. The year has been one of early reverses uphill fighting, and final triumph in more than one branch of athletics. The overwhelming success of the football team last fall after unparalleled accidents testified to an indomitable fighting spirit. The track team retrieved a close defeat by Cornell by winning from Yale. And now Coach Haughton, taking charge in mid-season of a baseball team which had already lost its captain, has led it to triumph. With the victory from Yale...
...connection with this topic the Yale "News" has published the result of inquiries from several colleges as to the expense of running the various branches of sport. One representative of each type of college has been chosen: Princeton, as representing the so-called "Big Four"; Williams, representative of the smaller Eastern institutions; and Michigan from the West...
University major and minor sport teams have met Yale in thirteen different branches of athletics during the present college year, and have been victories in ten of them. Yale's three victories were gained by the gymnastic, wrestling, and fencing teams, but the latter defeat was atoned for, when the University fencers defeated Yale in the intercollegiate meet, finishing two places ahead of their rivals. The gymnastic teams did not have a separate meet, but Yale won the intercollegiate meet, while the University team took only sixth place...
...major sports the University teams have made a clean sweep to date, baseball and crew still remaining undecided. The year began with the annual intercollegiate golf and tennis tournaments in September. In the former event, the University won individual honors and finished second to Princeton in the team matches. Tennis resulted in the doubles title coming here, Princeton defeating Harvard in the singles. In the first dual contest of the year with Yale, the cross-country team nosed out a victory, 27 to 28, and later took second place in the intercollegiate run, Yale finishing third. Football brought the first...