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...last paragraph of the report deserves especial attention. Complaint is made that the old custom of each man at the training tables paying what his board had previously cost him, has for some unknown reason been abandoned, and that now it is sometimes difficult to collect any money for board at all. We had always presumed that certain conscientious scruples would prevent a man, although a member of a university team, from living entirely at the expense of the college, and that as a matter of course, he would pay at the regular training table what he had been accustomed...
...Pres. Patten presided and reported the gift of $50,000 from Mrs. Susan D. Brown to be used in the erection of a new college dormitory; of $25,000 from Mrs. Robert L. Stuart of New York for the foundation of a new professorship; of $5,000 from an unknown friend for the scholarship fund. Degrees of Doctor of Philosophy were conferred upon Prof. Durell of Dickinson College, on Prof. McNeil of Lake Forest University and on Prof. McMillan, President of Richmond College, Ohio. Among petitions granted was one which shows in a marked degree the difference in liberally...
Until 1871 there were no college matches and the game was almost unknown. In 1872 the Yale Football Association was formed and a few games were played. In 1873 the first Intercollegiate Convention was organized and a series of games played. The game then was very different from that played now. It was purely football, as no player could carry the ball or tackle an opponent and off-side playing was not forbidden. Yale won the championship in 1873 and again in 1874, but lost it to Harvard in the following year. In 1876 and 1877 Yale again defeated Harvard...
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