Word: entering
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Inducements of the character mentioned, a scholarship and pecuniary compensation, a ticket to Boston, etc, were extended to me by a Harvard man early in November to enter the Law School at Harvard and become a member of the Harvard Nine and Football eleven...
DEAR SIR: I have been thinking of late of going to Princeton to College. I am tutoring now at Cambridge, with the idea of entering Harvard, and Cumnock thinks I am going to enter sure next year, but they don't seem to want to do much for me. Now I have to have help wherever I go. I saw Bruny Willard the other day and he wanted me to write you he thinks P. is the place to go I have played fast [foot?] ball at Exeter for two years no doubt you have heard of me while...
...Editor of the Press: SIR-A statement recently appeared in New York and Philadelphia papers in which it was alleged that certain inducements had been extended to me by a prominent Harvard base ball official to enter the Harvard Law School and play on the Harvard base ball nine and football eleven. Though the name of Linn of the Harvard nine was not mentioned he has seen fit to deny that overtures were made by him. Under the existing circumstances, therefore, it seems desirable to state the existing hasis of the statement in the papers. Inducements of the character mentioned...
Fourthly, an allegation that the officers of the Princeton Association have in their possession "evidence that a number of the Harvard Eleven were offered pecuniary inducements to enter College to play football, and are at present beneficiaries of the college funds." A "portion" of this evidence was enclose to us, but was not published by the officers of the Princeton Association with the statement...
...statement sent us by the officials of the Princeton Association further says: "No member of the eleven has received either from us or from outside parties, to our knowledge directly or indirectly any pecuniary compensation, either as an inducement to enter Princeton or as assistance while here. Neither have we entered into any form of promise or engagement to pay present or past expenses or to make future compensation in any way. Neither has any member of the team benefited by any business arrangement while here." This, however, can hardly represent the invariable attitude of the Princeton Football Association...