Word: neutrality
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...left exactly as if it had been brought about as the result of a perfectly friendly meeting between representatives of the two universities. The Harvard men undertook to get the assent of the requisite authorities to give it validity, and a game on November 9 or 16, on neutral college grounds, seemed almost a certainty. After a delay of about ten days information was received from one of the Harvard men that it would be necessary to bring a member of the Harvard Athletic Committee into communication with Yale representatives. The agreement that had been reached was stated to this...
...literature, art and science, throughout Europe, many of whom are actively interested in this movement. In several continental institutions committees of students have been formed to carry on this work, under the direction of the central committee, which has been located in Switzerland because that is an essentially neutral center...
June 2, Harvard on neutral ground in case of tie, otherwise Orange Athletic Club at Orange...
...Party principles are innate in men; and choosing the one or the other, men decide political issues as they arise. In America these two widely divided parties have always existed; and at present are called Democratic and Republican. They are so radically different that a thinking man cannot stand neutral. There are times in politics when party lines grow indistinct, but these are only temporary...
...matter says: "Yale can show no good reason for refusing to listen to Harvard's sportsmanlike proposition for a game in case of a tie. It is disappointing to Yale's friends to note a repetition of last year's insistence, against all precedent, of a game on neutral ground being played first." This too is the opinion of every fair minded person who is capable of judging a question impartially. If Yale's plan had been a reasonable one, arbitration would have given her all that she now claims. If it had been shown to be unreasonable she ought...