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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Wallace, King, of the eleven, and Dr. Delevan represented Yale; for Harvard, Palmer and Sears were present. Harvard offered to leave the question to arbitration and abide by the decision of any judge chosen by both parties. To this Yale would not agree and in reply sent the following letter to Mr. Sears...
...Pepper communicated the contents of a recent letter from Professor J. P. Peters, director of the exploring party now on its way from Philadelphia to Chaldea. The recent newspaper report of serious accident to the party is an exaggeration. The steamer conveying part of the expedition did, indeed, meet with misfortune off the coast of the island of Samos, but the American party suffered no loss. Professor Peters was not with them, but was in Constantinople, working to secure permission to excavate-a permission which the Turks are always loth to grant. Professor Peters felt sure, however, that he would...
...Harvard-Yale game, the question now seems to be not when and where it shall be played, but whether it is to be played at all. The Yale management insist on holding strictly to the letter of the constitution of the association, which provides that the elevens holding first and second place shall play in N. Y. Thanksgiving day. Yale has not only not offered to play anywhere else,-Cambridge, New Haven or any other place-but insists that the Harvard team must meet the Yale eleven at New York on Thanksgiving or the game will be forfeited to Yale...
Dear Sirs-Your letter of the 14th inst. in answer to ours of the 12th is at hand. We are sorry to learn from its contents that you have failed in your endeavors to persuade your athletic committee to allow the game to be played as scheduled. Considering the fact that Harvard has had since a year ago to play the game at New York, in which time the constitution stated that the two leading teams of previous years shall play at New York, in which to come to her present conclusion, we do not feel in any way under...
...solely on the constitution of the foot-ball association, and if any change is made it must be by vote of the association and not a single college. Harvard's peremptory demand that the game be played in Cambridge is very extraordinary to say the least. The Gill-Beecher letter, on which Harvard founds her claim, was merely the private opinion of two members of the university, and was never intended as an agreement binding the college: but even if it was, the later action of the two colleges, agreeing unconditionally to play in New York, would have annulled...