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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...opinion prevailing throughout part of the class at least that because the crew is handicapped by a debt of three hundred dollars from the freshman year men are freed from the moral obligation of supporting it. Granting that subscriptions for various college organizations have become a greater burden than can be borne without a good deal of self-sacrifice, still, since the class of '92 in the autumn showed no desire to stay out of the class races, every man should bear his share of the expense necessary in putting an eight on the water and not let the whole...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/17/1891 | See Source »

...give no comprehensive summary such as the articles spoken of furnish; but we present what seem to us a few of the chief points on either side. Those who urge the new plan must assume the burden of proof. They say: first, that the present age of entrance into college is too high; second, that the growth in our standards and efficiency and the contemporary rise of the graduate school have been so great as to make the A. B. degree no longer the limit of general culture; third, that in general the number of college-bred men in America...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/20/1891 | See Source »

...past years, the New London people have so exclusively profited. The annual Harvard-Yale race has been a source of revenue to everybody except the colleges, which have always been the losers. It is only just that now the colleges should be freed from a part of the financial burden which has been resting so heavily on them. The New Londoners, we are glad to say, seem at last to appreciate this side of the question...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/3/1891 | See Source »

...would place the whole burden of taxation on a small portion of the community; b. it would prevent the poor from owning desirable land, P, 6 L. T. Dis.; c. it would violate the fundamental principles of taxation-universality, equality, ability...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: English 6. | 3/2/1891 | See Source »

...spite of this fact, however, there can be no doubt that the strain upon the students of the University for the support of athletics is far too heavy. This exhausting burden must be raised in some way. There are two ways in which it can, at any rate, be relieved: The first is by cutting down the running expenses of the teams; the second is by combining the finances of the teams, so that, under one management as far as possible, they can be run together, and money saved by the combination of the various interests, which now pull apart...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/14/1891 | See Source »

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