Word: consent
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...24th, and the second in New Haven, May 31st. To this no direct answer has as yet been received ; but it seems from various reports from Yale sources, that Yale, '87, being dissatisfied with Mr. Kent's course, has voted not to play with us at all unless we consent to play them the first game May 24th in New Haven. We confidently expect that they have also kindly settled the exact hour and minute at which the game shall begin, in order to save us all unnecessary trouble...
...freshman team wished to play the game at the Polo Grounds in New York, but the Harvard team would not assent to this, but named Spring field or Cambridge as the only two places where they would consent to play. This was a delicate way of obliging our team to play at Cambridge for the simple reason that the receipts at Springfield would have been by no means sufficient to pay expenses ; while at Cambridge they were reasonably large. It is worthy of notice also, that no offer was made to pay half the expenses of our team to Cambridge...
...which will play abroad this summer. This is a large proportion to come from one club and throws credit upon the work, which Harvard has done in introducing this sport among students. Unfortunately the faculty has just told the undergraduates chosen that they could not go unless they would consent to be dropped a year in their college work. This they have thought it best not to do, and, therefore, Nichols will be Harvard's sole representative on the team when it is finally made...
...Friday just before supper, licked some of the prominent freshman girls in their rooms intending in this way to break up the supper. They finally relented, however, and let the freshmen out on condition that they should share their supper with them. The freshmen could do no better than consent. So, like a dish of cream with two spoons, the supper intended for the freshmen served as a repast for both classes. The young lady freshmen, however, fared better than their brothers at Cornell, for they at least had a finger in their...
...other of the competing colleges, is designed to break up the practice of playing match games in large cities, and drawing crowds for the sake of gate money. But are not crowds drawn to Yale and Harvard for gate money? And what are we to say of Columbia, whose consent to these resolutions is asked, which is situated in a large city, and which has no home grounds...