Word: absent
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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DEAR SIR: Messrs. Sears and Cumnock speaking to the Andover Team last fall, offered any man who would come to Harvard and get on their team, their expenses paid through college. I, myself, was absent, but was told by members of our Team, one of whom is now playing on Harvard's team...
...DEAR SIR: Messrs Sears and Cumnock speaking to the Andover Team last fall effered any man who would come to Harvard and get on their team their expenses paid through College. I myself was absent but was told by members of our Team, one of whom is now playing on Harvard's Team. SMITH MOWRY...
...other members of the Andover team. No such offers have ever been made to me." Mr. Dennison says: "The extract is false from beginning to end. I was never offered any inducement to play on the team either by Mr. Sears or anybody else." Mr. Sears is absent in Europe. We have written to him, and his answer will be at your disposal, if you so desire, when it arrives...
...Scott, '90, consented to take the place of the absent speaker on the affirmative. He 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...
...meeting at the Fifth Avenue Hotel on Saturday night to consider the advisability of arranging a rule to prevent the disputes which occurred this year, relative to graduate and professional players in intercollegiate athletics. No business was transacted as the delegates from Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania were absent. Those present were Tracy Harris of Princeton, W. C. Camp of Yale, and F. D. Beattys of Wesleyan...