Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...years the international amateur athletic federation has been working, through its committees, to compass some agreement satisfactory to all represented nations by which it could be settled, for a time at least, as to what divides amateur from professional athletic sports. Lacking such agreement, international competitions develop considerable friction. But given an accepted standard which is enforced, sports at once are braced up. For this reason then there will be public interest in the announcement that the committee, sitting at Lyons, France, has just come to an agreement, not differing much from that submitted to the federation congress in Berlin...
...room on those days by any Class Secretary or other person or persons without the previous written consent of the Bursar. Who shall not give his consent in any case until such Class Secretary or other person or persons shall have filed with him a written agreement that this rule shall be compiled with...
Eleven of the undergraduate Social Clubs have entered into an agreement with reference to elections, which is a pledge of their desire to co-operate in supporting the principles for which the Freshman Dormitories stand. One of the significant clauses of the agreement provides that "no club shall elect as a member any undergraduate before the fourth Monday after the opening of college in his Sophomore year, or before that time pledge or promise election, even by implication to such undergraduate;" other clauses forbid the taking of any individual pledge or promise to join a club before the Friday following...
Heretofore the clubs were free to elect at the beginning of the Sophomore year and there was therefore no agreement to prevent canvassing in the Freshman year. The postponement of the elections protects the Freshman year completely and prevents the Freshmen from attaching undue importance on immediately becoming involved in the club system. Clubs at Harvard are purely social and in view of this the CRIMSON heartily agrees with the sentiment expressed in the following editorial which appears in the Alumni Bulletin...
...also intensify social consciousness. Therefore if the clubs were to invade each Freshman class and split it up into the elect and the non-elect, the chosen, the anxiously expectant and the hopelessly ignored, a tendency quite opposite to the purpose of the Dormitories would set at work. The agreement already guarantees that the Freshman class will be pretty completely relieved of this danger. The danger will be entirely eliminated if the few organizations which still elect Freshmen will join in the movement so propitiously begun...