Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...urged that it is in agreement with the present spirit of college boating for Freshman crews to represent all departments of a university; that, therefore, it would be a courteous thing in Harvard and Amherst to waive their strictly legal advantage, and grant, as an equitable claim, what could not be demanded according to the letter of the rules. To this there is a twofold answer. In the first place, inasmuch as Yale's right to pick her crew from the Sheffield School was not perfectly clear, she should have sent, months ago, a notice of her intention...
...intended, has been fitted up in a most becoming manner, with an eye to the aesthetic as well as the practical. Thanks to the generous subscriptions of the members, the committee have been obliged to omit nothing required in the best-appointed society rooms. According to the agreement of the lease the Institute library is to be removed hither. New and elegant bookcases have been ordered to receive it, and it will be rearranged, catalogued, and thrown open in a much more attractive and accessible form than heretofore. A piano has also been moved in, and a special meeting held...
...students have lately received a warning from the Steward's office, that, if they wish to retain the rooms which they at present occupy, they must sign an agreement to that effect before the first of April following. They are also informed that "the experiment tried last year, of allowing students to retain their old rooms conditionally, on failure to get others which they prefer, will be discontinued." The dissatisfaction which this announcement has created appears to be widely spread, and not without some reason. It is thought that upper-class men do not have the advantage over lower-class...