Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...will be on the same footing as before. The number of available candidates for the crews will be diminished. In fact, several men have decided not to row next year, if this custom becomes fixed. Would it not be possible for the four captains to make an agreement to row but once a day? It has been claimed by the students that they can manage athletics without the interference of the faculty. Here is a splendid opportunity to prove it. If some action is not immediately taken by the students, we may, at any moment, be put under another interdict...
...great great enough, unless they spend more time in the boat than the other crews. The means by which this fancied advantage is gained is open to all, and all taking it up are again on an equality. Is it not far better to come to an agreement which will retain boating within reasonable limits instead of establishing a bad precedent which will make it easier to overcome the objections to this move in the future...
...conclusion, we may state that although adverse to minute or rigid restrictions upon college sports, we fully appreciate the necessity of excluding therefrom all spirit of professionalism, and would willingly see the University of Pennsylvania enter into any reasonable agreement in the matter which the colleges of the Eastern and Middle States might think advisable...
...objection to this rule is that it seems injudicious to attempt to coerce other colleges into an agreement from which their better judgment shrinks; that it lessens the number of possible rivals; and that it may prevent us from meeting at all the representatives of a college which has always been our for3most rival in every sport, and in the contests with which the greatest interest and enthusiasm have been shown...
...rule. Very few of the socalled amateur oarsmen who are prominent can put their hands upon their breasts and testify that this clause does not apply to them: "Whose membership of any rowing or other athletic club was bot brought about, or does not continue, because of any mutual agreement or understanding, expressed or implied, whereby his becoming or continuing a member of such club would be of any pecuniary benefit to him whatever, direct or indirect." When we see a man devoting nearly his whole time to the oar and indulging in expensive habits, we know that he cannot...