Word: cleared
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...compared with that which Yale has; the crew is light, and Yale is displacing men who had seats in last year's boat because of the superiority of new material; and, even when the two probable Mott Haven teams are compared, Yale seems at present to have a clear advantage...
...generally agreed that the number at the general tables is too large for comfort, and that reform is needed, but exactly what reform is not clear. One plan of reform is that the number at the general tables should be reduced next year so that there would be only two men to a seat, and that the club tables should be kept precisely as they now are. This would make the hall accommodate about one hundred and forty men less; but it is considered much preferable to any inroad upon the social side of the life in the hall...
...four extra men would destroy, or even seriously impair, the pleasant social relations now existing in the hall seems highly improbable. Certainly, even if there was a small inconvenience occasionally, it would be more than counterbalanced by the larger number of men admitted to the hall. It is a clear case of the greatest good to the greatest number...
...their own expenses. Now the manager of the nine has decided not to ask for any subscriptions whatsoever, but to rely wholly on the receipts of games. The crew, therefore, is the only organization which will ask for support. Since the nine will leave the field of subscriptions wholly clear for the crew, the football debt ought, in justice, to be paid by the latter. If, then, this debt is added to the amount expended by the freshman crew last year, the total amount is found to be in the neighborhood of three thousand dollars. This whole amount must come...
...also. The University is accumulating a great stock of mechanical apparatus, and this can be used without detriment throughout the year; yet the vacations of the University are such that, for a quarter of the year, no use would ordinarily be made of the apparatus. This would mean a clear waste of opportunity...