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...publication of the "required reading" in Political Economy 4 has been undertaken as a sufficient number of subscribers has been obtained to defray the printing expenses. The pamphlet is expected to be ready directly after the Christmas recess...
...they treat their team with the way the other colleges treat their athletic representatives, the results will be very easily accounted for. The Harvard team went to New York the day before the game and stopped at one of the best hotels; each man had a liberal allowance to defray his expenses. On Saturday afternoon the team was taken directly to the grounds in a coach and received with cheers by enthusiastic supporters; after all this expenditure the association will have a balance of over a thousand dollars. Compare this state of affairs with the condition of athletics at Princeton...
...meeting of the captains. I was elected president, and at once suggested the advisability of corresponding with Harvard. The statement by Treasurer Morgan showed that our treasury had been badly depleted by the Oxford race expenses, and that it would be very hard work raising the funds necessary to defray the expenses of a trans-Atlantic trip. Therefore, before any propositions were made to Harvard, it was thought proper to ascertain the cost of the trip...
...steamship companies asking their lowest rates. Just at present we are deliberating on what our expenses would be after reaching America. Some friends of ours tell us that it is customary for the railroad and steamboat companies and hotels benefited by the crowds that go to such events to defray the expenses, and advised us either to write to them or to ask Harvard to learn for us what could be done in that direction. There would undoubtedly be enormous numbers of people at the race, and the railroads and hotels ought to be quite liberal in the matter...
...their training were above the level of the two lower classes in that department." In conclusion, Mr. Shaler refers to the English system, by which "many of the secondary schools of that country have in their possession presentations and scholarships which enable youths who win them to defray in part, or wholly, their education at either Oxford or Cambridge. ... The effect of these presentations both on the school which gives and that which receives, is good. They help the lower schools to fill their classes with youths contending for the prize, and they give to the universities well selected students...