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...upon the said president and fellows by the charter or articles of association of this corporation. This vote shall take effect upon an acceptance by the said president and fellows of the powers hereby conferred, but with the provision that the said president and fellows at any time may abandon and surrender or limit such powers upon notice to this corporation...
...blame. What Yale will do in her future games with Harvard will depend very largely on the final outcome of her trouble with the other members of the Intercollegiate Association. If the undergraduate rule is voted down at some future meeting of the association Yale will have to abandon her ground. If she does this we shall probably see the teams back on the old basis, now in force at Harvard, of players from any department of the university governed by strict rules on eligibility. The time when all the teams shall be made up on a common standard will...
...affairs of the Union agree that a change is necessary. Whether the wisest step is the one so hastily taken is an open question. The majority of the Union may consider the new plan the best that can be devised, or on full discussion it may decide to abandon it. Be that as it may, it has seemed wise to the Executive Committee of the Union to call a special meeting of the society that the plan may be thoroughly and adequately discussed. Both sides must allow that the haste shown at the last meeting was not in keeping with...
...games between the three universities could be accomplished, except by a six years' agreement to which we have no objection, without involving Yale's consent to play half of her games with us in Cambridge, to which I had not supposed she would agree. If she is willing to abandon her former position in this regard, Harvard is, of course, ready to give up the Springfield arrangement. But, as I said to Mr. Cuyler, we cannot pledge ourselves to play for so long a time in New York. We are entirely ready to pledge ourselves for that time to play...
...Harvard has under the existing circumstances done, we think, the best thing. The negotiations had been dragging on for a long time; and as Yale still refused to held the contest as early as May 14, Harvard was obliged to accept the date of Friday May 20 or else abandon altogether the chance of holding the games this year. It was a choice between leaving Cambridge during the week, and breaking seriously into the important period of college work, or permitting a blow to fall on athletics which the graduates of the two colleges had arranged between Harvard and Yale...