Word: contract
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...final arrangements for the game at Springfield between Harvard and Yale have been made. The grounds have finally been engaged and the contract for building the grand stand awarded. The new grand stand, which will be composed of 70,000 feet of lumber, will be amphitheater shaped, with seats on three sides, while a high fence will complete the remainder of the circle. There will seats for 9,000 people. The place for the coaches is rather limited, but the seating capacity of the grand stand will be much larger than last year...
...made the annual race week their harvest week, they have over-changed visitors and crews, and, far from making their town agreeable to college men, they have acted as selfishly as possible. It is due time that either the crews go somewhere else to row or that a better contract be made with the citizens of New London and the railroad authorities...
This is the last year of the five years' contract between Harvard and Yale and the railroad company. Yale has been anxious to take early steps towards a renewal of the old contract or towards getting a new one, but the Harvard boating authorities have held back because the University Treasurer will not allow the manager of the crew to speculate with the crew's funds. The present contract does not treat the college rowing associations at all fairly, as practically all the advantages of the big gathering go to the railroad and to the city...
...observation train at the Harvard-Yale race will be longer this year than ever before. It will consist of thirty-four cars, with accommodations for 2300 people. This is the last race under the present five years' contract between the two colleges, and the railroad officials. This contract retains practically all the advantages of the enormous gathering for the railroad and the town of New London, and will probably not be renewed...
...making the general course of contemporary history in western Asia clear, by furnishing precise chronological data, and by clearing up a multitude of references in the prophets to Babylonian and Assyrian matters, the cuneiform inscriptions are the best friend to the student of the prophets. The so-called "contract tablets," by revealing all phases of the social life at Babylon while the Jews were there in exile in the sixth century B. C., are particularly helpful, because they show the influences under which the Jewish con contemporaries of the prophets were living. These influences, polytheism excepted, were certainly far better...