Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...hold an agreement signed also by Capt. Dudley S. Dean, fixing a series of games upon conditions, by which we were willing to abide. We also hold the personal assurance of Captain Dean, before this agreement was signed, that you would arrange a series of games with Princeton. It was upon this assurance that we signed this agreement with you-in fact the representatives of the three colleges met on that basis. Whatever may be your opinion of the correctness at the outset of our attitude in advocation the necessity of a series is now not open for argument...
...your reference to our relations with Princeton is concerned we can only say, at this time, that our agreement was made under a written condition that the proceedings of the meeting should be subject to the approval of the respective Princeton Harvard University authorities. Furthermore we are unable to realize why in the arrangement of a Yale-Harvard series there should be more justice in your stipulation that Harvard should play with Princeton than there would be in our possible demand that Yale should not play with Princeton,-and the latter, we believe, would be an extremely untenable position...
...careful reading of the existing correspondence we are unable to find any expression, on your part, of dissatisfaction in regard to any portion of our original proposition, save that which relates to a fifth game and the arrangements therefor as modified by us. In consideration of our unqualified agreement in regard to four games, as arranged, we should think it very unfortunate if we could not drop all thought of a fifth game and decide to play the four games...
After your return to Cambridge you cancelled your Princeton agreement entirely, and several important details of our agreement, and in regard to the latter, never so much as asking us our opinion of the change...
...without consulting the advisory committee in baseball, it is perfectly certain that he arranged the games in good faith, and equally certain that his arrangements with Yale were made in the same spirit. For Yale, therefore, to designate his action as "refusing to carry out the terms of your agreement with us," is equivalent to saying that Captain Dean has broken his good faith. Yale cannot pretend that she does not know that all arrangements for games and other athletic matters must be submitted for approval to the Harvard Athletic Committee. Certainly that committee has been prominently before the public...