Word: york
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...withdrawal of Harvard from the Intercollegiate Football League was due to the fact that the intense competition within that League had led to objectionable practices in all the colleges, which, as was proved at the meetings held in New York on Nov. 4 and 14, Princeton could not be brought to abandon by amicable agreement. The chief of these objectionable practices are-first, inducing good players to enter college, or to return to college mainly for the purpose of engaging in intercollegiate contests; and, secondly, putting on teams good players who are not in reality amateurs, but have received compensation...
...said that from Captain Kidd's day to the present silver had been the people's money. Miners on the whole do not make money, and therefore it cannot be objection-able to protect them. Mr. W. Wells, '90, closed the debate. In 1878, he said, the New York Clearing house refused to accept silver dollars except at their real value. A panic was only prevented by the passage of a law compelling national banks to receive the silver dollar at its face value. We ought not to run the risk of permanently impairing our credit merely for the sake...
DEAR SIR.- In the New York Herald of the date of November the 15th there was a despatch from Philadelphia to the effect that Mr. Ammerman, a student at the University of Pennsylvania, had been approached by a prominent member of the Harvard nine and had been offered inducements to come to Harvard. In reply to your question concerning the article I wish to say that I have not made and no one has been authorized by me to make any offer whatsoever to Mr. Ammerman or to anybody else, Yours very truly, PHILIP B, LINN, Capt...
...YORK...
...your friends any trouble, but you can rest assured that I shall put myself to any amount of trouble, and go before any Examining Board that requests it, and testify to the facts in the matter. I shall be very glad to see you if you come to New York...