Word: free
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...said that the largest school in the world is the Jews' Free School in Spitalfields, London. It contains 2,800 members...
Yale is said to be anxious to hear some able protectionist refute the arguments by Prof. Sumner in a lecture on Free Trade...
President Eliot was opposed to the practice indulged in by college teams of depending largely upon the receipts from gate-money for paying their expenses. He thought that a small charge for seats at games might be made, but the privilege of viewing the game should be perfectly free both to students and to outsiders. He was strongly opposed to a fence around the new grounds and regretted that the circle of benches now on Jarvis shut off so large a part of the grounds from public view. What resource in default of this customary one there would remain...
...most crying need of the students is more dormitories near or in the college yard by which they may be within easy reach of all the buildings, and also be free from the extortion practised by Cambridge boarding-house keepers, whose prices rise year by year as they see each freshman class larger than the last, more than ever at their mercy from want of sufficient accommodations under college rule. The most pressing need of the college, according to the president's report, is more unencumbered money for running expenses. The treasurer's report states that the percentage of returns...
...weights on one side. This would be no great hardship to them as they could easily schedule their weight exercise so that no clashing would occur and their weights be used continuously for a little longer portion of the afternoon. This arrangement would leave half of the weights always free for the use of anyone, and with such provision the unattached would be amply satisfied...