Word: reasons
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...clause in question states that the games should be held in alternate years at Cambridge and at a place which Yale might designate. The athletic committee, at its meeting Tuesday night, approved this clause; and the only remaining step is Yale's signature to the proposals. There is no reason to doubt that this will be given; and we may, therefore, confidently look forward to the contest with Yale at Cambridge, now set down...
...overseers cheerfully avail themselves in putting aside for the present any further conslderation of the change. The committee whose report was adopted, say: "We think it fair to treat this as a case of nearly equal division of opinion of the teaching body of the college; and for that reason, if for no other, your committee think it would be unwise for the Corporation and Overseers to approve so important and far-reaching a change as the reduction of the baccalaureate degree in the face of an earnest, weighty and influential dissent. Such momentous steps should not, as a general...
...games with good clubs. Last year by April 15 we had played only Tufts and Exeter. Moreover, the majority of the games to be played during the month will take place in Cambridge. The schedule has not yet been accepted by the Athletic Committee, but we see no present reason to doubt their acquiescence...
...money from the members to pay for the expenditures necessary to be made immediately. Under this agreement the club rooms were furnished. The money which the clubs promised has not yet been paid, and the Union Club is consequently over four hundred dollars in debt. We cannot understand the reason of this deficit. Either the officers of the various clubs which agreed to subscribe have been abominably lazy in not collecting, or the members have been utterly blind to their obligations. A charitable view would be that the members have not thoroughly understood the matter. We hope that the state...
...ascertained that the Free Wool Club had never officially assented to a proposition to belong to the Union Club." And a motion was made by one of the members "that the Free Wool Club does not consider itself bound to pay any assessment to the Union Club, for the reason that it has never officially joined the Union Club. This motion was carried and the meeting was then adjourned...