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...agreed upon, and having broken her agreement, came up here to prevent the game from being forfeited. It is, thus, according to the original arrangement, Yale's turn to come to Cambridge. Our freshmen, however, not insisting upon this, have consented to play the game upon neutral grounds and suggested Providence, which although rightly nearer Harvard than it is to Yale, is certainly more nearly equi-distant than Hartford...
...referee shall be a graduate of some neutral college and each Boat Club shall name the referee in alternate years, Harvard naming him in 1883. This referee shall be chosen subject to the approval of both Boat Clubs...
...recent meeting of the Yale Boat Club, but not furnished for publication," say the News, "is that Yale regrets the peremptory tone of Harvard's last letter in intimating that Yale's reply would terminate the correspondence; that Harvard's refusal to abide by the decision of a neutral committee, should the two advisory committees fail to agree, does away with settling the matter by graduate committees; that Yale now agrees to send the president of the boat club and the captain of the crew to confer with the Harvard representatives, within two weeks, and to arrange the race...
...letter of January 22, and H. U. B. C. letter of January 25) our resolution to abide by the decision of our joint committee, no other guarantee is necessary, and we decline to sign any further agreement. We cannot consent to the appointment of a neutral committee, as it implies a lack of confidence in our respective committees and in their ability to settle questions which in former years the crew considered themselves competent to decide. We are of the opinion that your graduate committee having full power, the joint committee is competent to bring the whole matter...
...letter was received by Yale yesterday from Harvard, in which the latter adheres to her former position, objecting to a neutral committee, and insisting that if the conditions previously laid down are not observed, the race must be abandoned. A meeting of the graduate advisory committee will be held today to take action in the premises. The Yale Club will be governed by what the committee directs. Most Yale men insist that the challenge must be accepted and then allow the graduate advisory committee to arrange the details, and, if unable to do so, to abide by the decision...