Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Since the beginning of Harvard-Yale baseball games in 1868, Harvard has won 16 series, with a total of 42 games, and Yale has won 12 series, with a total of 49 games. Following is a record of all games played under the present five-year agreement...
...from the railroads which touched at Cleveland. During the same period, it organized a system of pipe-lines which, with several smaller systems, secured special discriminations from the railroads in 1874. In 1875, when rate wars made uncertain all the traffic upon the trunk lines and broke up the agreement among the pipe-lines, the Standard Oil Company with its pipe-lines was able to exact still greater favors from the railroads entering Cleveland, and by its superior capital, was able to absorb its weaker rivals. . . . Nothing in subsequent years has been able to undo the shrewd...
...rule. At this season of the year it is common for ball players to receive offers from the promoters of hotel nines. They agree to supply board, and in some cases money, to those who will join the nines. Occasionally the offer takes the form of an agreement that a student playing upon a hotel nine shall receive his board and pay in such a way that his violation of the amateur rule shall never be detected. I need not point out to Harvard students how undermining of decent amateur sport this practice might become. Every effort should be made...
...directors of the Harvard Dining Association submitted to the Corporation on May 8 a petition, embodying a number of improvements to be made this summer in Memorial Hall. In replay to this, the following letter of agreement has been received by the board of directors...
...owing to recent crafty changes in the Lampoon's eligibility rules, made at a mass-meeting of the editors of that sheet. On account of this unsportsmanlike act on the part of the Lampoon, the CRIMSON is seriously considering refusing to play them again, after the present five-year agreement expires...