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...defray in part, the necessarily large expense of this concluding entertainment subscription tickets were placed on sale. These tickets were subscribed for by several members of the Faculty, by the Harvard musical associations and by a few people in Cambridge, interested in the class...
...rings and overhanging rings. The water circulates continually through pipes leading to the immense boiler where the water is heated. The dressing rooms connected with the tank-rooms contain more than five hundred lockers with the necessary shower baths adjoining. An assessment is levied on all the students to defray the running expenses...
...greatest interest. Whether on the whole such an international race would be a desirable addition to the present list of intercollegiate athletic contests is a matter for consideration. Certainly the expense, no matter how quickly and eagerly loyal graduates and enthusiastic students would raise the money to defray it, is against the idea. Then, too, it may be questioned whether all the newspaper talk and excitement and the increased expenditure of time as well as money would not tend to bring discredit upon college athletics generally in the same way that the great football games are admitted to have done...
...offer made by E. C. Bredin of the London Athletic Club to defray the expenses of Kilpatrick and Conneff of the New York Athletic Club if they would come to England to compete in the Stamford Bridge games in November has been refused...
...Bredin of the London Athletic Club, who was to have been one of the members of the team of that organization now in the United States, but who declined to go, has cabled to America offering to defray the expenses of Kilpatrick and Conneff of the New York Athletic Club, respectively the champion runners at 440 and 880 yards, and one, three and five miles, if they will come to England and compete in the Stamford Bridge games in November, with himself and Bacon respectively, the contest between himself and Kilpatrick to be at a distance of half a mile...