Word: trusts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Seeing that Harvard and Yale have in an unsportsmanlike manner agreed to make a combine or trust and play exclusive football between themselves, the Philadelphia Item has decided to offer a silver football valued at $250, as a trophy for competition, emblematic of the intercollegiate football championship of America, open for competition among all colleges of America, Harvard and Yale barred...
...sure that the majority of college men will agree with my opinion for it certainly seems a rather shabby proceeding to give such a poor place to the coaches which hitherto have had at least a respectable position on the field. I trust that measures will be promptly taken for altering what seems to me very absurd and unwise plans, and that all men who attend the game on coaches may have an even chance with other spectators...
...over one hundred and fifty men on the waiting list, it will be seen that the number who would be accommodated by the temporary change is by no means small. It is in behalf of these men alone that we make known this complaint to the directors. We trust, therefore, that they will give the matter their careful consideration...
DEAR SIRS.- We trust that you may kindly grant us space to call attention to the project of the Archeacological Institute, to buy and excavate the site of the Delphic oracle and temple. There is no other work of the kind remaining to be done in Greek lands, at all comparable with this in importance and interest. Like the Attis at Olympia and the Acropolis of Athens, the Delphic temenos was an art museum of a national character. How many of the three thousand statues to be seen there in Pliny's time still lie buried beneath the cottages...
This cup is given in trust to the captain of the Harvard university football eleven to be put up for annual competition for a period of ten years under the following rules and restrictions...