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...Sinclair Kennedy, "The Gift of the Sea," Rudyard Kipling...
...gift is a result of an event which occurred last fall during the football season. At the time of the Harvard-West Point game, the West Point management promised and paid the Harvard Football Association a guarantee of $250 to secure the game. When the association learned, however, that the West Point team was not allowed to charge admission to its games and was supported entirely by voluntary subscription the guarantee was returned. In recognition of this act, the cup was sent with the following letter...
...members of our association that this was not enough, and that your generous act in returning the guarantee, paid to secure the game, called for more substantial acknowledgement than mere words. There has been no thought or attempt on our part, in sending this, toward a repayment of that gift, and we trust you will consider it in no such light. Our athletics, as you may know, being supported entirely by voluntary subscription, the return of our guarantee was gladly accepted; but the act nevertheless had more than a money value with...
...hope you will accept this cup in furtherance of the friendly spirit in which it was sent-the same spirit in which we know your gift to have been made...
...generous gift of the Athletic Association of the United States Military Academy at West Point to our football association will be warmly appreciated here. Football at West Point is a comparatively new institution, and the athletic association as yet has no accumulated fund to fall back upon. The management is not allowed to charge any entrance fee to the games, and consequently has to depend entirely upon subscriptions collected from the students. When the Harvard Football Association realized this they declined to accept the money guaranteed them by West Point for their expenses in going to the game. In recognition...