Word: prior
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Resolved, That no professional athlete shall take part in any contest of the association, nor shall any college player or college be paid, or receive, directly or indirectly, any money, or financial concession, or emolument as a present, or as past compensation for, or as a prior consideration or inducement to playing, whether the same be received for, or paid by, or at the instance of the Football association, Athletic committee, or faculty of such college or university, or any individual whatsoever. And any player who is specially challenged under this section by any member of the association in writing...
...baseball association began the year in January with a surplus of $1646.57. Its receipts amounted to $5238.20. Its expenses, including bills payable, to $7298.02. It has a present debt of $413.25. It should be added that prior to January, within the college year 1888-89, the sum of $455.10 had been expended, so that the total expenses for the year amounted to $7753.12. The total expenses in 1887-88 were $7624.63. But the receipts in that year exclusive of surplus, were $9938.49, $4700.29 more than in 1888-89. The decrease in receipts in 1888-89 was due mainly to smaller...
...prize of $100 for the best essay to be written by some member of the law school. The prize of $100 offered by the association in 1888 was awarded to Samuel Williston, LL. B., '88, of Cambridge, for an essay on "The History of the Law of Business Corporations Prior to the Year 1800." The gift of $1000 from ten members of the association to the law school, made at the close of 1887, for the purpose of increasing the instruction in constitutional law during the academic year of 1888-89, has been applied to that purpose by increasing such...
...silver cups, and their number will depend altogether upon the number of entries. As there are to be three scratch men and liberal handicaps there ought to be a large number of entries, which can be made to Kenneth Brown, 43 Brattle St. Entries can be made any day prior to the race, but it is desirable that they be made by Friday noon, so that the management can have time to properly arrange the handicaps...
...Chapel was well filled yesterday afternoon at the Vesper Service. The Rev. Dr. Gordon conducted the meeting and after the reading of the nineteenth Psalm, gave a short sermon. He took as his text the incident of Mary being excluded from the inn prior to Christ's birth. He said if men would only consent to come into real contact with Christianity it would have the effect of an electric battery, establishing a complete sovereignty in their thought, interest, and being. The choir sang the anthems, "It came upon the midnight clear," by Sullivan; "Thus said the Lord," from...