Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...subject in connection with the late foot ball season, which at the time it did not seem well to criticise, but which from the importance of the principle it involved demands some serious comment and consideration was the foot ball agreement entered into with Harvard by the president and captain of the Yale team, as representing the university. The advisability of the agreement is not now the question; the point is as to the way in which it was made...
...athletic associations were merely the agents of the University, qualified to carry on all the executive business of the teams in whatever way seemed fit and to decide on all minor subjects of policy that came up, but certainly not empowered to make a definite and binding agreement on a question of such far-reaching importance as the five-year foot ball arrangement with Harvard. On questions that touch so nearly as this does the whole athletic interest of the University it has always been customary for the University to decide, and the manner in which the present agreement...
...When the agreement was made last fall, the Yale News gave its unqualified approval to it in the following editorial of October 21: "The foot ball arrangement entered into with Harvard, printed in another column, will be greeted as a definite settlement of a matter that has given a good deal of trouble in past years. The terms of the agreement seem to be perfectly fair and it should put on a much firmer and more satisfactory basis our relations with Harvard in foot ball...
...would thus appear that the Yale News heartily approves of the agreement made four months ago; but finds fault merely with the manner in which it was made - not with the arrangement itself, as some of the New York newspapers yesterday intimated. The latter construction would of course be equivalent to an accusation of bad faith against Yale...
Following is the agreement made Saturday night by the representatives of the two Unions: "We hereby agree to the following question for the next Harvard-Yale debate to be held at New Haven on or about the 25 of March, '92. Resolved, That immigration into the United States should be unrestricted. Harvard shall have the affirmative and Yale the negative...