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...bring to Cambridge the first championship of the season. The management has labored under a great disadvantage in being obliged to play the games this spring on a field so exposed to the view of all as Jarvis. As a consequence, there have not been enough paying spectators to defray the expenses of the patrolling policemen. We feel sure that it only needs a word to remind the students of this state of affairs in order to bring out a generous response...
...another excuse comes from Yale for "crawling" in the freshman game with Harvard. This time it is on the score of expense. The management was afraid that enough money would not be taken at the gate to defray the expenses of the game and so of course the game had to be given up. In this straightforward, manly mode of procedure, Yale is not to be blamed. Oh, no. She simply followed the rule which always prevails in such circumstances. Thousands of such instances might be given. For years it has been the custom for Harvard or Yale...
...CLEVELAND MAN.The money was used to defray the expenses of the band.-[EDS. CRIMSON...
...Bijou Theatre would be just what is needed. The electricity needed could be furnished by the dynamo-electric machine in Boylston Hall which is under the charge of the assistants .This would necessitate only a short line of wires from one building to the others. To defray the expenses, which would be slight after the plant was put in, the college could certainly find the means. For supplying the plant either a popular subscription might be raised or some one of the friends of education be appealed to for funds. Many men would be willing to stand their share...
...dining hall until the foundation of Memorial Hall. During this same year he made arrangements to provide for the cost of a scientific expedition to Brazil by Prof. Agassiz. Prof. Agassiz was greatly perplexed for want of means to meet the expenses of the expedition. Mr. Thayer offered to defray the expenses of Prof. Agassiz and six assistants. The expedition yielded scientific results of great importance, and, although the expenses proved greater than was anticipated, Mr. Thayer did not refuse to defray them. Thayer Hall was erected in 1870 as a memorial gift, commemorative of his father...