Word: agreements
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...matter of regret that the Yale and Harvard representatives, in their conference at Springfield yesterday, could come to no final agreement. Whether the matter is definitely ended or still held in abeyance, it is at this time impossible to state. The result of the conference, if unsatisfactory at the present time, ought at any rate to serve to prevent future misunderstandings
George A. Adee and J. B. Townsend, representing Yale, and Robert F. Herrick and Lawrence Brooks, representing Harvard, met at New London last Friday in conference with the board of trade of that city in relation to the renewal of the agreement of Harvard and Yale to row their eight-oared race on the Thames course for a period of five years. At the last meeting difficulty arose over the refusal of the railroad company to give the collegians virtual control of the observation train and the refusal of the city to give each college $250.00 this year. The college...
...year, and also to abandon their position in regard to the observation trains. The original demand was that each college be allowed to control the sale of one-third the tickets for the observation train just where it has been for several years past. The other points in the agreement are practically the same as those discussed a few weeks ago. The full text of the agreement was published in Saturday's papers...
...composition of Yale's letter, they have published a large amount of matter, in which Harvard's independence is proclaimed, and we are warned not to dictate or interfere; but we find barely touched upon the real reason for our measures, the abrogation by Harvard of the agreement entered into by the three Universities...
...cannot permit our agreements with you to be thrown over by the whim of any outside body and then begin anew as if no agreement had been reached. Your suggestion that your athletic committee bears the same relations to your athletic organizations that our faculty does to ours is most surprising, Permit us to inform you that our faculty interferes with our games only so far as they interfere with college exercises. It does not dictate to us as to what college we shall play. It does not attempt to fix our dates nor even to cancel agreements because perchance...