Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...North Carolina legislature has extended for two years the act providing for a settlement of the State debt...
...graduate advisory committee has been given full power in the settlement of the present Harvard-Yale race controversy...
...challenge we could do nothing with her in regard to some of the arrangements, one of which was the manner of starting the boats. This controversy was finally settled by Harvard's giving in at the starting line. This year the acceptance of Yale's challenge, together with the settlement of all minor arrangements, has been put into the hands of the graduate advisory committee...
...progress has been made in the railroad conference in New York toward a settlement of difficulties...
...Hobart faculty interfered and sided with the Cornell nine. They advised the freshmen to acknowledge their unfairness and try it again on a square basis. The victorious freshmen demurred, and a few days since the faculty called a meeting of the class to urge them to come to a settlement with the Cornell men according to the latter's terms. The seniors and juniors, wishing to be identified in some way with the trouble, concluded to interfere with this meeting, and accordingly proceeded to the meeting armed with tin horns and various other noisy instruments and disturbed the peace...