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...negotiations by Captain Thorne's letter of May 11. In common courtesy it was Yale's part to reopen negotiations if they were to be renewed at all. It was Harvard's place to maintain a dignified silence until an invitation should come from Yale. The plan by which certain Harvard graduates who neither had nor claimed to have authority to make agreements were to unite with certain Yale graduates in inviting Captains Thorne and Brewer to a conference, and by which Yale should not invite Harvard in the normal way was therefore disaproved when submitted to the Harvard Athletic...
...believed that this plan would meet the requirement that Yale should write first and these letters were then submitted to the chairman of the Harvard Athletic Committee. He desired, after full conference, a day to consider them and to confer with certain persons, and the next evening refused to allow the compromise to be effected in this manner. This result was reached on Tuesday evening of last week. At the last moment certain prominent Harvard alumni in New York offered to write to Captain Thorne a letter urging him to write some kind of a letter to Captain Brewer...
...Shaw is not certain when he will be able to play again. It may be that he cannot play again this year...
...death of Bates the class has lost one of its best known members, and the sense of keen personal loss which its members feel is increased by the knowledge that the class has been deprived of one whose energy, ability and courage seemed certain to bring honors to both himself and his class. His career at Harvard was marked throughout by a lively interest in the things which would tend to advance the welfare of his class and the College...
...which will appeal as such to a large majority of those who are interested in college athletics. The history of the events in this unfortunate controversy, may be briefly stated as follows: Harvard was beaten by Yale at Springfield in the annual game last fall. Although there were certain features of that game which received adverse comment in practically all of the leading papers of the country, nothing happened which, in the eyes of the Harvard team, or of the Harvard athletic authorities, would prevent the teams of the two universities from meeting in friendly rivalry another year. Accordingly, Harvard...