Word: collect
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...track committee decided to call a meeting this evening in Holden Chapel for the purpose of considering what arrangements should be made towards the collection of money and the erection of a grand stand on Holmes Field. The plan that the track committee wishes the college to approve and ratify is, that a committee of three shall be elected which shall have control over the plans and expenditures of monies for the grand stand. The committee which had charge of the matter in 1883 procured plans for a stand the estimated expense of which is $14,949.00. It is planned...
...occupy, it being a very poor incentive to good batting to have tennis nets before one, and seats or picket fences at each side. And the mucker who "shacks" earns every cent he gets, by scrambling over the afore-named obstacles on an average of once a minute, to collect the balls which have been driven there...
...announcement of the Tennis Association in our Saturday's issue, a typographical error caused some ambiguity in the meaning. In the sentence, "and it shall be the duty of this boy to collect these tickets and the necessary amount," the word and should be changed to. Subscriptions should be sent to No. 12 Holworthy...
...method of collecting these daily charges will be as follows: Five, ten, fifteen and twenty cent checks will be placed at Bartlett's, the Co-operative store, etc., and can be bought in any number. They can also be purchased of the boy on the grounds. And it shall be the duty of this boy to collect these tickets and the necessary amount of charges from each man, shortly after he begins play for the day. This shall be done, not by the players giving the tickets to the boy himself, but by dropping them into a box with which...
...idea is to collect into one place full information upon each of the important topics of present history. The trouble with our careless, intermittent newspaper reading, is that we get but an imperfect, hazy, often incorrect knowledge of passing events. The purpose of the proposed plan is expressed in the phrase-to present a compendious summary of contemporaneous history...