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...before the next annual meeting of the Yale field corporation. The field will then be transferred to the president and fellows of Yale, and Walter Camp will be appoint treasurer of the Yale field. The managers of the different athletic interests have arranged to place the revenues under the control of a permanently constituted board, of which Camp will be a member, which will result in affairs being administered in unity. The student part will work with the corporation part. Camp himself will give to this matter the whole time, which he has hitherto given to the writing of magazine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Athletic Plans at Yale | 1/19/1900 | See Source »

...president in 1800 with a salary of $1400 a year, in addition to fees for degrees and grants of land; Ebenezer Storer was treasurer; and Doctors J. Lathrop, S. Howard, E. Pearson, and Judges J. Lowell and O. Wendell were serving on the Corporation. The College was under the control of the State, its Overseers being composed of the governor, lieutenant-governor, council and senate of the commonwealth, and the ministers of Congregational churches in Boston, Cambridge, Charlestown, Watertown, Roxbury and Dorchester...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD 1800-1900 | 1/8/1900 | See Source »

Professor Macvane believes that the Boers are utterly in the wrong, that they have broken every agreement with the British, and that they have tried to hold the majority under the control of the minority in a selfish and oppressive way. They have shown themselves an ignorant and corrupt oligarchy and all the evidence goes to prove that they were about to attack England at the first opportunity. The fact that should have weight with Americans is the oppressive and cruel apprenticeship, so-called, under which the blacks are held, forming a condition practically equalling that in America before...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BRITISH-BOER WAR | 1/5/1900 | See Source »

...students held last Saturday a complete change of method in the management of the athletic interests of the university was made. For the old system of a separate organization for each branch of athletics, a general athletic association was substituted. According to the articles of the new system the control of all athletics is vested in a committee made up of five graduates and the captains and managers of the various teams. The graduates are known as the "advisory committee," and are elected by the alumni council. The undergraduate representatives, captains and managers, are to be elected, the former...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Athletics at Columbia. | 12/18/1899 | See Source »

...right promised by the Boers in the negotiations regarding the conventions. But conventions aside, England had the general right to protect her citizens, and Princeton did not deny this. The South African troubles had to be faced by England, but, in facing them, she did not demand government control. Wherever English subjects were maltreated, there harmony could never exist

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANOTHER VICTORY. | 12/16/1899 | See Source »