Word: agreements
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...time. Again, in the consideration of the best methods of testing pupils' attainments in studies these conferences will meet with a perplexing and unsettled question. It is demanding consideration no less in other colleges than in our own, but we have considered it so long here that a satisfactory agreement appears difficult. Undoubtedly to most of those who compose the conferences the conservative method of examinations seems the best and most uniform. Generally speaking the minds of pupils are so constituted that some car successfully show their proficiency by one method when others cannot. In a written examination, for example...
...football, our position is very clearly defined. We are ready, by separate dual agreements, to make any arrangement which puts Harvard on equal terms with Yale. I do not see how an equal division of the Thanksgiving day games between the three universities could be accomplished, except by a six years' agreement to which we have no objection, without involving Yale's consent to play half of her games with us in Cambridge, to which I had not supposed she would agree. If she is willing to abandon her former position in this regard, Harvard is, of course, ready...
...understand the situation two facts should be remembered. Harvard and Yale have a four years' agreement to play football at Springfield on the Saturday before Thanksgiving, while Yale and Princeton are members of the Intercollegiate Football Association, by a rule of which the two leading teams of the year before play in New York on Thanksgiving...
According to an agreement between the Harvard Republican and Harvard Democratic Clubs, the CRIMSON will undertake the entire charge of the voting of the college, the collecting and counting of the ballots and the final publication of the returns. The undersigned have been appointed a committee to take charge of the matter for the CRIMSON. The votes of the following departments will have to be retaken: first year Law School, freshman class and Lawrence Scientific School. The ballots of all other departments will be counted as first taken. The ballots of these three departments will be taken as follows...
...were rowed over a three-mile straight away course down the Connecticut River at Springfield. Yale won one and Harvard got two seconds. In the races held during the next three years at Saratoga neither Harvard nor Yale secured places. In 1876 Harvard and Yale formed an agreement to row each other annually excluding all other colleges, and since then races have been rowed regularly, the first two at West Springfield and the rest at New London...