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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...call at Thurston's and sign contract - Lucas trousers pressing system...
...empowered to offer only $1.00. The railroads finally compromised on $1.50, but the offer could not be accepted. The Board of Trade declined to give the proposed $250.00 for expenses to each of the crews this year, but promise that sum for the next four years of the contract. It is expected that an agreement will be reached some time next week and a contract drawn up and signed or else negotiations opened for the race on some other sheet of water...
...letter which appears in this morning's CRIMSON from the manager of the freshman crew deserves the serious consideration of every man in the class. The freshmen must give their crew proper support. No class should ever be allowed to contract a crew debt; it is a thing which hangs over a class during the entire course and in the end costs twice as much as it would have cost to support the crew properly in the first place. This has been the experience of many classes, and it has resulted finally in a restriction forbidding a freshman crew...
...Romans. The man had to be 14 years old and the girl 12. The consent of both fathers as well as that of the bride had to be obtained and the parties could not be near relations. The betrothal was somewhat of the nature of a modern contract, there being witnesses to sign the papers and a certain amount of money being given to the man as a pledge of good faith. In after years this money was replaced by an iron ring, this being the origin of the modern engagement ring. Immediately after the betrothal there was a grand...
...Yale nine have cancelled their games in Baltimore and Washington. In spite of this the league teams will hold the college nine bound to their contract, and if they refuse to play the Yale team will be sued for damages...