Word: extras
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...lacrosse men occupy the cage all the time when it is not in use by either of the two nines, that is, from 11 A. M. till 2 P. M., with occasionally an extra hour or two in the afternoon. The work consists of practice in throwing and catching, the candidates being divided up into squads of three or four men, each squad using the cage two or three hours every week...
...neighbor, the chances are that he will be filling the ears of his helpless victims with tales of imaginary woe or visions of enjoyment which the donation of a "quarter" or "half" will give. The ingenious devices resorted to are worthy of admiration. At one time an extra dollar is needed to pay the month's rent; again, a pitiful story of a dying child is used to work upon our sympathies. Furthermore, he can suit his conversation to the tastes of his auditors. On Washington's Birthday and Decoration Day he sympathizes with us and bewails the cruelty...
...money-making scheme should be persisted in and improved upon. This proceeding is at the best somewhat questionable, and we hope that the higher price has not been determined upon simply because the managers think they can get it. They should remember with what disfavor the project of charging extra prices was regarded last spring in the base-ball games. We should be sorry to observe any attempt at extortion in a college organization whose chief end should never be to make money, or to have it lay itself open to the suspicion of such a design...
...meeting of the directors of the Dining Hall last evening it was voted that the little room could be occupied provided the extra expenses were paid by the occupants; and that upon its becoming vacant by the removal of the present occupants into the main hall, applications be received and a drawing be held. A notice shall be posted at least a week before the drawing...
...forward the plan of the new athletic grounds. It is not often that the action of the Athletic Association is criticized, and, when a just criticism has been brought up, it has always received careful consideration. In this case the college has had no means of knowing the extra expenses that the association will be obliged to meet, and the dissatisfaction which has been expressed by many was not, therefore, uncalled for. The association, in putting the price of reserved seats at seventy-five cents, felt that they were justified in doing so; but if, under the circumstances, any still...