Word: trades
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...London Telegram of Wednesday, March 4th, has the following report of the action of the Board of Trade of New London concerning the boat race between Yale and Harvard...
...committee of the Board of Trade appointed to represent the board in the conferences between the representatives of the college crews and the city, in regard to the college crews and the city, in regard to the future of the college races on the Thames, met yesterday afternoon to consider the propositions of the crews submitted after the meeting of the representatives in this city on Sunday. The committee was favorably impressed with the fairness of the demands, which have reference chiefly to what the railroads should do in return for the amount of traffic the college events furnish them...
...Garrison addressed the club and briefly summed up the work of the past year and the possibilities of the organization for the future. He regretted the fact that the name of the club rather suggested the idea of an organization formed to advance exclusively the cause of free trade than a general reform club based upon the tenets of the advanced wing of the Democratic party. The club showed its intention of holding several meetings during the spring and it is probable that such men as Sherman Hoar, George Fred Williams, John E. Russell, Dr. William Everett and Curtis Guild...
...agreement is in the hands of the New London Board of Trade, which will in turn make sub-agreements with the railroads, hotels...
There seems little doubt that the New London Board of Trade will accept the agreement offered by the Yale and Harvard Boat Clubs. These organizations are in a position to dictate their own terms; and they have used their power to bring to the colleges some of the benefits by which, in past years, the New London people have so exclusively profited. The annual Harvard-Yale race has been a source of revenue to everybody except the colleges, which have always been the losers. It is only just that now the colleges should be freed from a part...