Word: kindness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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DEAR SIR:- I did not state to Mr. L. D. Mowry or to any other person that money offers of any kind had been made to me or to other members of the Andover team. No such offers have ever been made to me by Captain Sears, Captain Cumnock, or any other person, either before entering college or since. Last summer, on the invitation of several Princeton men, I went to Cape May and played on a baseball team. There were seven Princeton men and one University of Pennsylvania man, besides myself. We all received our board and an allowance...
...have not to my knowledge been made by any member of the Harvard Football Association. The whole charge is false and without foundation from beginning to end." Mr. Upton says: "I did not state to Mr. L. D. Mowry or to any other person that money offers of any kind had been made to me or to other members of the Andover team. No such offers have ever been made to me." Mr. Dennison says: "The extract is false from beginning to end. I was never offered any inducement to play on the team either by Mr. Sears or anybody...
...With kind regards, I remain, Yours very truly, J. W. SPALDING...
...Wesleyan University club recently held in New York, Judge Reynolds of Brooklyn, president of the board of trustees, announced that Dr. Daniel Avres, of Brooklyn, had paid over to the trustees the sum of $200,000 as an endowment fund for the university. This gentleman has previously shown his kind feeling toward the university by way of considerable sums, including $50,000 to establish a chair of biology. After a vote of thanks had been tendered Mr. Ayres, Bradford P. Raymond, the new president of the university, announced that the trustees had resolved...
...writer in discussing this style of play takes grounds against it, alleging that it is a kind of off side play, that it leads to personal contact of players not having the ball and hence to slugging; and that it has not been made necessary by the natural growth of the game, but is a radical departure from the true theory of the game. In the face of this it cannot be denied that the game has this year been comparatively free form slugging, and it may be doubted whether with a competent umpire this disagreeable feature would...