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...Yale, asking if they could play on either of the dates mentioned, and if so, what financial terms they would offer. These letters were not intended as offers to play on the days mentioned, but when the answers were received, stating the terms, Williams was at liberty to reject the offer of either or both of the colleges. 30th Harvard and Yale offered to play on the 23rd, Harvard stating as her terms, one hundred dollars, and asking how much Williams would pay if unwilling to pay that sum. The offer from Yale was preferred, and having accepted this...
...supply and demand to all industrial relations, excluding entire considerations of ethics and sentiment. This, too, discredits Christianity. It would bar Christ out from the kingdom of business and hand religion over to women and children. We are encouraged by the fact that the best political economists to-day reject this materialistic theory and teach a doctrine in closest harmony with Christian ethics. The lecturer proceeded to state some principles of action which may assist the advance among the common people of a Christian theory of economics. The efficiency of labor increases as hopefulness, ambition and self-respect are created...
...there is any college that can afford to reject a challenge without loss of dignity, that college is our own; by refusing Yale's demand, we show that we have no apprehension of its being said that "Harvard accepted Yale's challenge because she was afraid of being called a coward if she refused...
...extend our heart felt sympathy to those unfortunates whom the hard decrees of a cruel fate and a more cruel faculty, doom to stay in Cambridge during the recess. As for those who reject the blessed privilege of leaving the college for a few days, - who stay in Cambridge to grind, - we can only pity for their foolishness, and pass them by. To those whom no powers without nor inanity within can keep in Cambridge, we wish the best of good times...
...grand stand to cost over $14,000 is preposterous. The committee having the supervision of the present plans must reduce them to reasonable limits. If that is impossible, let them reject the present plans entirely and employ an architect to draw new plans, the execution of which shall not be beyond the means of the people who are to build the stand. It is necessary that a grand stand such as we need should be well made, and not a mere temporary affair, and also desirable that it should be ornamental and in keeping with its surroundings...