Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...harvest of first reactions is then a generally favorable and highly encouraging one. It seems to justify the contention made yesterday that the time was ripe for definite and constructive action. The important thing is not whole hearted support for the specific proposals of President Hopkins but general agreement with his fundamental contention that steps should be taken to reform abuses in intercollegiate football. The latter, so far as can now be determined, has been very fully, attained. The next step is a definite invitation from Dartmouth for a conference, which in turn must wait upon the decision...
...President Lowell and applied by Director of Athletics Bingham. It is the platform of every sane man who has been advocating reform of intercollegiate football for the past year. In general principles then Harvard and Dartmouth, President Lowell, President Hopkins, and Mr. Bingham, are all in whole hearted agreement...
President Hopkins proposes a conference for the consideration of his proposals. Because of the underlying agreement on general principles already pointed out Harvard should be the first to accept any such proposal so soon as it is forth-coming in its final form. The reform of the abuses to which intercollegiate football is at present subject, the further development of intramural sports and athletics for all, on these things Harvard and Dartmouth agree. Toward attaining those ends Harvard has so far chosen to be slow and cautious. That method, certainly useful when sympathy among other colleges for Harvard's aims...
...Britain made her trade agreement with Russia in March. Republican Germany denounced the treaty of Brest-Litovsk and made a more just peace with Russia in May. Other powers followed suit...
Johns Hopkins University, proponent of education that is "higher" in fact as well as in name, last week made a contribution to the art of inter-class warfare. The sophomore and freshman officers drew up an agreement that "there shall be no kidnaping or fights between groups of men before noon on Saturday, March 19." Class banquets, which at Johns Hopkins are held secretly and later "discovered" and raided, might be held only within a specified period. And "in the event a person is kidnaped and kept away from home all night a notice of his safety shall be sent...