Word: board
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...will tell you plainly, I will do all I can for you in every way. I can get your board, tuition, ete., free. The athletic men at Princeton get by all odds the best treatment in any of the colleges...
...away on our spring baseball trip, or your letter would have received a prompt reply. As to your coming down here I will tell you plainly, I will do all I can for you in every way, if you really wish to come. I can get your board, tuition, etc., free. The athletic men at Princeton get by all odds the best treatment in any of the colleges. I would like to talk it over with you personally. If you will accept an invitation from me to come down and spend Sunday-say to one of our Yale games...
...Stickney's letter affirms that at Cambridge they were not willing to do much for him. Mr. Ames writes from Princeton that he will do all he can for Mr. Stickney in every way, and that he can get him his board, tuition, etc., free: adding that athletic men get by all odds better treatment at Princeton than in any other of the colleges. The precise nature of the assistance received by Mr. Stickney at Cambridge is stated in the following letter...
...those interested in them. And there was in 1888-89 the instance, referred to above, in which an athletic man, not then a member of any team, borrowed a sum of money for college expenses from a fellow-student. There were, further, a few cases in which the full board of members of teams have been paid at training tables, during the period of training. This practice, however, has been stopped by the managers of the teams...
...return to college mainly for the purpose of engaging in intercollegiate contests; and, secondly, putting on teams good players who are not in reality amateurs, but have received compensation for the practice of their sport. In many cases this has goue no further than the acceptance of board, travelling expenses, and perhaps a money allowance for incidentals. Present players on various college teams-in Princeton. Yale, and Harvard alike-have accepted such pecuniary advantages. But in other cases it has included the acceptance of money for playing particular games, the acceptance of a salary for teaching athletics, and the practice...