Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...another column we give the report of the committee chosen to try to arrange the base ball difficulty with Yale. This report gives a clear statement of Harvard's position and of the offers for a settlement which she recently made to Yale. At the conference at Springfield Yale saw fit to refuse those offers. In taking such action Yale doubtless had her own reasons for deciding to change her course from the one which she adopted in the beginning of the season, and thus to lay herself open to the just charge of inconsistency. She had equally good reasons...
...were ready to make all the assumptions just mentioned in favor of Yale and thus to make all honorable amends for any possible injustice to Yale caused by our cancellation of the Princeton-Harvard provisional arrangement, we felt that it was only fair to couple with the settlement of the difficulty of this year an arrangement by which diplomatic negotiations with all their attendant evils might be reduced to a minimum hereafter. We pointed out that such an arrangement was only a formal recognition of the existing custom by which Yale and Harvard meet in all the sports every year...
...would seem from this letter that all hope of games with Yale this year were at an end. We are not in a position to say anything more definite on this subject than that the final settlement of the matter of games is in the hands of the Graduate Advisory Committee on base ball. Whatever is done by this committee the college is confident will be well done...
...that games between Yale and Harvard for this season are sure to be readily arranged. Yale seems to have taken her position rather from a misunderstanding than a wilful disregard of facts; and in view of these circumstances, it ought not to be hard to bring about a friendly settlement between the two colleges...
Whatever steps, however, Harvard may see fit to take in order to reach such a settlement, Yale may as well understand clearly that they shall not be upon a basis which allows Yale to dictate in the slightest degree to Harvard. Harvard will play whom she pleases without reference to Yale. We make make this statement at the very outset. We trust that we have made it clear enough for Yale's thorough understanding...