Word: consent
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...polo grounds on Thanksgiving day. This action will cause serious loss, financial and otherwise. In the first place the faculty force the Harvard management to break a definite verbal agreement entered into by representatives of the two colleges acting through the Yale foot-ball president, with the consent of the Harvard president, Mr. Clark, and the manager of the polo grounds. This manager would have perfect right to claim damages from Yale and Harvard for breach of contract...
Junior.-"Well, my Bible says, 'My son, when sinners entice thee, consent thou not'''-[Targum...
...lawbreaking, if such an act has been committed. The president can in no case impose a heavier penalty than that assigned to the grade fixed by the jury. The two parties to the compact are the faculty and the undergraduates, and a three-fourths vote is required for withdrawing consent to the agreement. The details of the plan have been elaborated with admirable clearness, and the experiment will begin under the most favorable conditions. A conservative college like Bowdoin in trying such an experiment contributes importantly to a solution of the difficult problem of college discipline, a government which ought...
...report on the subject. I trust we will be sustained in our efforts by parents and by the public press. In Princeton no student is allowed to contend in any public game without the written permission of his parent or guardian. But there are parents who weakly give their consent to the importunities of their sons, and then complain that we have trained them in idleness. The public press, as a whole, are telling the colleges very plainly that they are going to excess in sports. Let them encourage those colleges that are seeking to lay restraints on the evil...
...accordance with Yale's past reputation. The only thing left for Yale to do is to announce the game in next year's Banner as forfeited to Yale by a score of 9 to 0, as has been done in similar cases. Let us hope, however, that Yale will consent to some arrangement by which the decisive game of the series may be played off at a time and place satisfactory to both parties...