Word: coaching
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fees and living expenses are very much less than even at our cheapest colleges. In England, at Cambridge and Oxford. the expense is about the same as at Harvard, perhaps being slightly more at Oxford. An almost necessary item of expense at an English University is a fee for "coaching," or tutoring, as we would call it. With us, aid from private tutors is confined almost entirely to men who have neglected their work during the term and are desirous simply of passing the examinations; but there, the best scholars, those who are working for the prizes...
Captain Fargo of the Freshman nine who has been lately confined to his room on account of his knee, has recovered sufficiently to be able to coach the team, though he does not expect to practise for several days...
Lynch, of the Metropolitan nine, has been engaged by Princeton to coach their nine until the opening of the base ball season...
Harvard is now the only college in the league which has no coach for the nine...
Princeton has written to secure Rathbourn, of the Providence Club, to coach their nine next spring...