Word: naming
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...statement appeared recently in New York and Philadelphia papers in which it was alleged that certain inducements had been extended to me by a prominent Harvard base ball official to enter the Harvard Law School and play on the Harvard base ball nine and foot ball eleven. Though the name of Linn of the Harvard nine was not mentioned, he has seen fit to deny that overtures were made by him. Under the existing circumstances, therefore, it seems desirable to state the existing basis of the statement in the papers. Inducements of the character mentioned- a scholarship and pecuniary compensation...
...lack of the evidence which a reply to my letter to Mr. Ammerman alone can supply, and from his silence when asked to name his man, and from what I have been able to learn as above stated I am led to believe that what Mr. Ammerman says of himself is true that "he takes no interest in college athletics," and also that there is no importance to be attached to his statement which is not worth the discussion it has caused...
...state clubs, etc.- all are arranged most systematically, each by itself. In the list of class secretaries a change has been made. In the last Index when the secretary of a class was not known, it was so designated; this year, not only is the fact designated, but the name of some prominent member of the class is added...
Someone interested in Princeton athletics, who does not wish his name to be known, has given a large sum of money for the improvement of the athletic grounds there, and they have accordingly been enlarged to nearly double the size of last year. The hill on the west side of the old field has been taken away and the clay carted to the south side, where it has been used to fill up an old hollow. The hollow corner at the northeast has also been filled in, and space sufficient for three or four new football fields has thus been...
...entered in an open competition; or for either a stake, public or admission money, or entrance fee; or under a fictitious name; or who has not competed with or against a professional for any prize or where admission fee is charged; or who has not instructed, pursued, or assisted in the pursuit of athletic exercises as a means of livelihood, or for gain or any emolument; or whose membership of any Athletic club of any kind was not brought about, or does not continue, because of any mutual understanding, expressed or implied, whereby his becoming or continuing a member...