Word: neutral
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...letter of January 22, and H. U. B. C. letter of January 25) our resolution to abide by the decision of our joint committee, no other guarantee is necessary, and we decline to sign any further agreement. We cannot consent to the appointment of a neutral committee, as it implies a lack of confidence in our respective committees and in their ability to settle questions which in former years the crew considered themselves competent to decide. We are of the opinion that your graduate committee having full power, the joint committee is competent to bring the whole matter...
...letter was received by Yale yesterday from Harvard, in which the latter adheres to her former position, objecting to a neutral committee, and insisting that if the conditions previously laid down are not observed, the race must be abandoned. A meeting of the graduate advisory committee will be held today to take action in the premises. The Yale Club will be governed by what the committee directs. Most Yale men insist that the challenge must be accepted and then allow the graduate advisory committee to arrange the details, and, if unable to do so, to abide by the decision...
...settle all ordinary questions, but recognize the fact that there might be some points to decide in reference to which the separate committees would have decidedly partisan views, and have considered that the only way in which these questions could be decided is by the action of a disinterested neutral committee. In the letter of the 22d inst., they agreed to leave these questions to this committee and to act by its decision...
...which Yale wishes to have the race rowed: "In a spirit of fairness, we agree to send a graduate committee to confer with the Harvard committee and to abide by the joint action of those committees, or, in their failure, to agree to abide by the decision of a neutral committee appointed by them to decide, in accordance with the ordinary rules of boating. All disputed points, provided that Harvard agrees to abide by the joint action of these committees, or, in case of a disputed point, by the decision of the neutral committee. But, in order that neither party...
...difficulty as a most unfortunate affair. Most of them agree with the Herald in ascribing it to a series of misunderstandings for which neither party is to be seriously blamed. Yale of course sides against us in the matter; Princeton endeavors to be just-severely just; the rest are neutral or indifferent...