Word: gately
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Down by the east gate - Hesperian. The Hesperian has mistaken the locality of the disaster. It took place in our college yard...
...stirred the college community to its depths. When the proposition was first made it was generally looked upon with favor. The idea of boiling the association down to a triangular one, composed of the three leading base-ball colleges, was attractive. It gave promise of more interesting games, larger gate receipts, and a raising of the standard of the game generally. This feeling did not last until the mass meeting, however. The more men thought over the matter, the greater grew the obstacles. To be sure, several men who had been in base ball and foot-ball conventions (Captains Camp...
...average yearly cost of general athletics at Yale is nearly $20.000. The expense for the season of 1885.6 was about $22,000, but this included some $4,000 for improvements for the benefit of the university and the class crews, and is probably a maximum figure. The income from gate receipts, glee club concerts and privileges for 1885-86 was only about $11,000, and to meet the deficiency over $10,000 was collected by subscription. The amount drawn from the students by subscription represents the yearly losses on aquatics, track sports, base-ball and foot ball. Boating is Yale...
...amount not covered by gate receipts and subscriptions, $2857.40, is met by glee club and miscellaneous receipts. These figures show that the subscription fiend, with his little book, is quite a striking personage at Yale - in fact many of the students think he strikes too often. When any of the teams are winners, an extra call for funds is made so as to present them with trophies. The amount spent for athletics by Yale men, individually, cannot, of course, be computed, but it is safe to figure that it would carry the yearly aggregate somewhat beyond the $25,000 mark...
...will of the late Samuel Johnson, of Chicago, the sum of $10,000 was left to the college for the purpose of erecting a gate-way at the main entrance of the college yard...