Word: contract
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...year if the management wish to play the game there. At present the field is in poor condition, but a gang of men is at work, levelling, sodding and rolling it, so that it will be in the best of condition by Nov. 25. Mr. Burnham, who had the contract for putting up the stands last year, has the work again. This year, however, the pitch of the seats will be greater, and where before there were ten sections, each with rows seating thriteen, there will now be in the same length of stand eleven sections, each with rows seating...
...definitely settled that the Yale game will be played as usual at Hampden Park, Springfield. H. H. White, Harvard's athletic manager, has secured the park this year at satisfactory terms and has also secured an option on the park for next year. Mr. White has already awarded the contract for erecting the seats, which will be built on a larger scale, so that the seatlng capacity will be increased from...
...dormitories will provide accomodation for about 175 men. The contract calls for their completion one year from...
...detected him and was prompt in acknowledging the truth and in removing the man. In engaging Pinkerton men, and it is to be noted that they are not North End roughs but the specials of the permanent Pinkerton Agency, the committee is enabled to bind somebody by a definite contract and to hold the superintendent directly responsible for the service of his men. Furthermore, it is impossible to procure enough Cambridge policemen for this duty without engaging a host of substitute men of a distinctly less intelligent nature than the Pinkerton specials. It requires the full Cambridge police force...
...work on the new infirmary at Princeton, which will now be ready for use in about two weeks. It was to have been completed by the first of last October; but owing to the lack of the necessary water supply and to difficulties with plumbing and draining, the contract was not fulfilled...