Word: cancel
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...attention has been called to a matter which, though inconsequential in itself, has occasioned some inquiry in the college. We refer to the cancellation by the University of Pennsylvania of the base ball game last week. Pennsylvania played Yale at New Haven last Tuesday and defeated her. The next day the Pennsylvania management telegraphed Harvard that the U. of P. nine had, owing to "Harvard's athletic status" this year, unanimously agreed to cancel the game. To Harvard's request for a fuller explanation, Pennsylvania made no reply...
...refusal to play Princeton should influence us to cancel our games with Harvard is not at all a necessary part of the question. There is no reason why we should elaborate a defence, when, in fact, Yale is the injured party and Harvard stands in the position of the offender...
...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 our nine may not have reached the proper stage of preparation for games...
...Williams college nine will make a two weeks' trip in April, and arranged to play the New York brotherhood nine April 5, but they will cancel this date in order to avoid complications with the national agreement clubs...