Word: nearly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...represented on the old committee before its consolidation with the conference committee, and the committee will be empowered to per pare final rules for the season of 1908. Pennsylvania and Chicago have joined the new association, and Cornell and Yale are expected to ally themselves with it in the near future...
Definite plans have been formed for giving Boston an opera house with an established company which will give grand opera for at least three months of the year. The ground for the building, which will be erected near Symphony Hall, has been donated by Mr. Eben D. Jordan, who has also offered to defray the expense of building the hall if necessary. The matter is in the hands of a preliminary committee, which will soon be organized into a permanent body and will eventually be formed as the proprietary company of the house. The theatre will be built...
...report closes by emphasizing the absolute necessity for a new building within the near future. The present quarters are entirely filled and any more gifts that may be received must be declined for lack of room or stored until larger accommodations can be secured. Plans have been drawn for a new building, which, with a fund for its proper endowment, will cost about $300,000. The amount which is now on hand is not sufficient to warrant even the beginning of a building, and until further subscriptions are received, the movement for a new building will be at a standstill...
...fourteen members of the rules committee will be appointed at the meeting, and the question of amalgamation with the old football rules committee will be again considered. Pennsylvania and Chicago have joined the new association, and Cornell and Yale are expected to ally themselves with it in the near future. It is expected that among the changes proposed will be the lessening of the value of the goal from the field, and the further restriction of the use of the forward pass...
Next get an advisory coach who shall always be near at hand, ever ready to prevent us from deviating the slightest from the policy adopted in the near in- ture. The change must be a radical one, and I shall not begin to point out the many faults shown on Soldiers Field this year. They must have been perfectly plain to everybody...