Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Although Harvard and Princeton have been trying for some time to come to an agreement concerning a joint debate this year, nothing has been accomplished. Princeton insists that each man shall have the privilege of rebuttal, and to this Harvard objects. Yale and Princeton have discontinued negotiations on this same account. In case there is no debate this year a compromise will doubtless be agreed upon next year...
...meeting of the Board of Overseers yesterday resulted in an agreement to carry out the arrangements proposed in a letter from Arthur Gilman, secretary of the Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women. The letter, addressed to President Eliot, is dated November 1, 1893, and runs as follows...
...will be seen that the obstacles in the way of the immediate fulfillment of this agreement to which the overseers have now consented, lie in the first two propositions of Mr. Gilman's letter,- the change of name and the conferring of degrees. These privileges can not be obtained without legislative action, but there is little danger that this will be refused. As soon as the necessary action has been taken, the agreement will go into effect finally...
...statements in the newspapers to the effect that students of the Annex under the new agreement will be admitted to the full privileges of the University, are absolutedly incorrect. They have already given outsiders the idea that something like co-education is to be put into practice here, while in reality the distinction between the Annex and the college is to remain exactly as at present...
...custom of having a Thanksgiving game to close the football season is one which has long been wanting at Harvard, but which is decidedly desirable. It is to be hoped that it will be continued after the present agreement with Pennsylvania comes...