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Yale University EliScholar – A Digital Platform for Scholarly Publishing at Yale Yale Record Yale University Publications 10-2-1872 Yale Record Yale Record Editorial Board Follow this and additional works at: http://elischolar.library.yale.edu/yale_record Part of the Journalism Studies Commons Recommended Citation Yale Record Editorial Board, "Yale Record" (1872). Yale Record. 4. http://elischolar.library.yale.edu/yale_record/4 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Yale University Publications at EliScholar – A Digital Platform for Scholarly Publishing at Yale. It has been accepted for inclusion in Yale Record by an authorized administrator of EliScholar – A Digital Platform for Scholarly Publishing at Yale. For more information, please contact [email protected]. TH E from the \'eek, and e will not e allowed is always YALE RECORD. emselre. Jol. I. .iYeJP ffaJ'ell Oct. 2 J 7'>. ;io . .t. er's Civil t railway THE LAST NIGHT AT HOME. fresh to enjoy the felicity of eeing Yale wipe nche~ er; Round the room the lamplight floating, out all her pa t defeat by a gloriou victory. Folds within its soft embrace vV e had prepared our el\ e by da , of ev re Many dear familiar objects, ir tine in training to bout Yale lu tily a the crew ( oke's Many a dear familiar face; ! pa sed us. We arrived late: barely in time to And I hear the children's voices, wa held Laughing out in gay delight; ascertain the state of the pool . \Ve di covered he Fre.h All around is love and comfort, upon inquiry that Yale old in the field. udjourned Yet I'm very sad to-night. This of course we attributed to gro ignorance For the hours, they fly too quickly, vo Kluit, And the night will soon be gone; on the part of the sporting fraternity. Well, m Janm I must leave upon the morrow, the morning of the 24th broke bright and mil- · Ere the shadows leave the lawn. t.; Tho. ing, gentle zephyr floated balmil ' through the e sr. And the strength of bitter feeling, air etc. (for further account of the weather ee 1 the ci More than words can ever tell, trk. • 11 Spends itself in wistful gazing N. Y. paper, July 25th.) We took up our vor to be On the forms I love so well ; po ition in a large field at the end of the cour e c day and Love still dearer now than ever, (for which privilege we paid a half dollar). For the knowledge we must part, cd a ·hort (Blessings brighten aa they're flying,) Scarcely had we arrived when a pi tol hot, far religious Will be felt, while beats a heart. up the river, announced the tart of the Fre h they may man crew . After a few moment · we caught , remark., Oh, thou Future! dim and gloomy, With thy whisperings of fate, ight of four crew steering wildly down the \' evening Heard by us thy airy voices . Gilman, Ever syllable "too bte." tream. \Ve watched them long enough to d ad re: see that the cientific Fre hmen had experi k P. M. There are words that are half spoken, There are tender eyes that fill, enced another bit of Yale luck ! and then bu i 'hefficld Good-night kisses,-all are vanished, And the night is dark and still. ne called us to the rear of the crowd. The crew pa ed over the line and the F re hman Oh! how many a noble impulse Throb it way into the light, race of 1872 wa won by \Ve leyan ! One Gathers half its power and purpose fair admirer of Middletown' talwart on be From the silence of the night. came o excited at this une.·pected ight, that tcr And I felt high a pirations, she fell uddenly down a teep bank, and at the ! That will last where'er I roam, Kindled 'mid the mournful silence bottom a urned the graceful position of an Of my last sad night at home. E. R. J. inverted umbrella. Now come the race of the day. The ec THE \VATER-LOO OF JULY 24TH. ond gun announce the ·tart of the U niver ity YALE men mu t be ick and tired of reading crew·. The ix boat come int ight. They article after article on thi melancholy but pro are ide b ide, and the pace i · fearful. Pre· lific ubject. 'till bear with u once more. ently one ix i ·een picking it way through In order to gain victory in the future, the cau e· the re t and-take the lead ! ,. ow for a field f our pa t defeat mu t be eriou 1 consid gla . 'Ve carcely dare to 1 ok. A ingle ered. We came to pringfield late, o a to be glance a ure u . The handkcrchiefr are blue, 26 THE YALE RECORD. and we shout Yale wins / till our throat cracks. FOOT-BALL. An uncouth looking Amherst tudent beside us Mr. Editor :-The way in which the foot mildly suggest that the handkerchiefs look ball sea on of last year clo ed, led some of u purple to him. We turn upon him with a to think that the commencement of thi fall glance of contempt. A second look through term would witnes great enthusiasm in thi the gla changes our opinion, however. For branch of college sport . But such eem not lo ! the country lad is right ; Amherst leads, to be the ca e. Hardly a word ha been poken with Harvard close upon her. But where, oh ! upon the subject. No one apparently has where is Yale? Far, far behind-last boat of thought of it. all! \Vhat en ued after this moment we are Ju t now base ball i all the rage. But, after not prepared to tate. The crew undoubtedly all the furor, it personally intere ts only about received their re pective congratulation and con nine men out of each cla or department. The dolence. Probably later in the evening the scene re t of u un killed mortals may watch the shifted to the Massa oit Hou e, where without game for our share of the port and exerci e. doubt, the u ual amount of" student vandalism I certain! y do not wi h to discourage ball and barbarism " occurred. Probably all thi pla ying. But there are many in college who do happened, but we are not prepar d to vouch for not play ball. And in the way it is conducted, it, a the hour after the race found us on the it can never become a uni er al college port. N. Y. train, tri\'ing to put time and pace be Just now, al o, the coming boat race take tween u and the town of Springfield. Yes, up a good deal of attention. But thi likewi e defeated, humilitited, tired and dinnerles , we i confined to a few in each cla . Foot-ball were off. The one question which kept ever eem to be about the only game in which every recurring to u on our journey was " Shall Yale one can take part. Thi fact alone ought to forever ufFer defeat ? " Look at the ca e as recommend it to every one's attention. We we may, we mu t acknowledge that the re ult are not half acquainted with the majorit of of the niver ity Race i f con idcrable im our own cla mate ; much le with the re t portance to the intere t of Yale allege. ow of college. this event mu t either ab orb more intere t in No sport ha been more thoroughly enjoyed college or mu t be abandoned. One of the for the la t two or three } ear than foot-ball. principal cau e of defeat thi year wa the lack o matche have excited more intere t than of general enthu ia m. It i very well to have the foot-ball matches at the Park. The grumble and talk about the inefficiency of the benefit of the exerci e which it give none will captain, but we trongly u pect that if la t deny. It may not produce a large mu cle a. year' sub cription Ii t were brought forward boating and it i very doubtful whether thi i!-i we hould not find the e grumbler ' name de irable. But no exerci e urpa e it in the upon it. ' We have had, al o, in the la t few development of accuracy of eye, nerve and year , eyeral in tance in which men ha" e de agility. clined to j in the Uni\ er ity crew fi r in ufficient Yet, perhap , the greate t benefit of the reason . What can a captain do when the ga~~ i the development of lung-power, an<l college d c not support him? Men refu ing th1. 1 what tudent e -pecially need. For nc to join the crew neglect a duty. In '6+ and I am con ciou that it ha done me permanent '6 5 our victory wa gained a much by enthu- g od, and I long for more.· f cour:e prained ia. m a by kill and mu cle. ankle and brui ed , hin do not add to it attr - And . o let u join in, one and all, and help tion ; but the e are better than brok n fin ger to core another victory fi l<l Yale.