Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...league that I suspect the presence of a large class who believe in no league at all. I am so impressed by their arguments (which I think have not appeared in print) that I venture to ask a few lines of your space to recapitulate them in. Without any agreement or any red tape we have a league de facto. Whatever contests we undertake now will be simply matters of sport. The colleges will be (or ought to be) gentlemenly enough to conduct games like gentlemen: that is without professionals on their teams and without the miserable disputes incident...
...Williams college nine will make a two weeks' trip in April, and arranged to play the New York brotherhood nine April 5, but they will cancel this date in order to avoid complications with the national agreement clubs...
...matter, which ordinarily would be settled between the two parties concerned without outside interference. It seems that the entire business responsibility of the concert was put into the hands of the Glee Club with the proviso that the financial proceeds should be afterwards divided among the clubs. If this agreement had been carried out within a reasonable time, the members of the Pierian Sodality would have no cause for complaint; but although almost a month and a half has passed by, no part of the receipts has been handed over from the treasurer of the Glee Club to the above...
...chief bulk of the number. The Gladstone-Blaine controversy by Representative Mills, author of the Tariff Reduction bill is the leading article. It is in continuation of the Gladstone-Blaine duel in the January number, where those two advocates of opposing theories flourished their steels simultaneously and by mutual agreement. Mr. Mills tersely, and with sledge-hammer vigor, answers Mr. Blaine, arguing that protection leads to countless other ills besides the accumulation of wealth in the hands of the few. Great Britain has left us sadly in the lurch, he says, with her free trade. She has swept our vessels...
...amendment to the national agreement adopted at the meeting of the National Baseball league last Wednesday provides that any amateur club which plays with the clubs of the players league shall be debarred from subsequently playing with a club working under the national agreement. This affects college teams...