Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Advertiser says in regard to Yale's refusal to prohibit playing with professionals: "The general view at Harvard seems to be that the rule had better be carried out and the question of Yale's acquiescence left to the settlement of the inter-collegiate base-ball convention, which may decide that any college nine which plays a professional nine shall itself be rated as professional. Such a step would prove a more effectual argument to Yale than the courteous ones hitherto used...
...blood-curdling stories will receive applause unless they be of marching tramps five miles to the nearest settlement...
...Smith, a law student at Charlotte, has begun a suit against Olivet College for $10,000 damages, claimed to have been sustained by the action of the faculty in suspending him from the college on false charges. Smith claims that the faculty undertook to extort money from him in settlement of a groundless charge, and, not succeeding, suspended him and he was obliged to leave school. It is understood that he will also begin suits against two or three members of the faculty personally, unless their further services shall be dispensed with by the board of trustees...
...Porte is averse to an international conference for the settlement of the Egyptian difficulty...
Strikes still continue among the Western iron mills, with no prospect of a settlement...