Word: statement
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...will make no condition unsatisfactory to you regarding your players for this season, provided you will give us a statement of what your proposition is for future purification of athletics. In other words, all we ask is that you, not being satisfied with the present, shall suggest the plan which you yourselves would propose or would be willing to carry out, not even binding yourselves to follow it for this season. We are desirous of your co-operation in our attempt to purify athletics, and we hope you will see fit to give us your suggestion upon that point. Very...
...statement in your letter in regard to Harvard's attitude at the Athletic Association meeting in New York last Saturday requires correction. Harvard voted against Swathmore's amendment, requiring one year's residence solely because it was proposed to put the rule into immediate operation...
...point out clearly serious faults in our plan, and if a reasonable concession will promote the interests of athletics, it is safe to say that Harvard will show a fair spirit and act in a sportsmanlike manner. It should be borne in mind that Yale asked for a statement of Harvard's position in regard to the undergraduate question. Harvard has made this statement, but it is in no way a formal proposition to Yale...
...Intercollegiate Association, as stated by Yale, cannot but make us seem inconsistent in the eyes of the public. We regret that the misstatement was made, but it is comparatively a small point. Manager Hill has answered it squarely and also the implied inconsistency between our present attitude and the statement made by the Chairman of the Advisory Committee in the January number of the Harvard Graduates' Magazine...
...naturally created a great sensation. The amount of the bequest was stated as from 2,000,000 to 4,000,000 dollars and the terms as absolutely unrestricted. The entire sum, was to be used as the authorities desired. Nobody at the dinner except the man who made the statement knew anything about the giver of this money and nobody here in Cambridge seems to know anything about him. The college authorities have heard nothing about the money and the news must be treated as a rumor till something more definite is learned...