Word: agreements
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...muff of Wright's off a pretty throw by Dow from right field, gave the Lowells three runs and the lead. But our chances were still good until the Lowells, when about to take the field, were ordered to stop playing by their manager, who claimed there was an agreement to stop the game at five o'clock. An animated discussion revealed the fact that, for the accommodation of the Lowells, such an agreement had been made by the captains. But it also transpired that the last two runs of the Lowells were made after five, and therefore, according...
...field, and sent the ball far beyond the ropes. He brought two men home and reached third himself. At this point the Yale Captain interposed. He objected to Fessenden getting three bases on a ball that went outside the ropes and was lost. Our Captain said that as no agreement had been made about that part of the field, his man was entitled to as many bases as he could get. The Yale men refused to play the game out, and after a quarter of an hour's parley our Captain agreed, for the sake of continuing the game...
They based their opposition upon the ground that when the various hostile factions agreed to the class organization, which was formally ratified at the last class meeting, they also came to a tacit agreement that no one of them should take any steps towards organizing a Class Day celebration. This ground is perfectly fair. For any section to have stepped forward as a section, and to have endeavored to procure special privileges at the expense of others, would have been highly dishonorable. But a movement organized and managed by individuals who entirely dropped their sectional character, and acted simply...
...President Robinson has as yet met with no response to his request that the ringleaders in the recent cane-rushes sign an agreement not to provoke the Sophomores...
...fall races were rowed over the two-mile course from the Union Boat-house on Saturday morning, and were very successful, considering the trouble all the clubs have had in getting good men to join the crews. By special agreement between the captains, the four-oars were made the first crews, an arrangement particularly advantageous in the fall, as it enables the captains to choose their men quicker, and obviates the necessity of taking green hands on to the first crews...