Word: give
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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THOSE people who carry around the subscription-paper often complain that signers are not to be found in such numbers as the justness of their cause seems to demand. Perhaps the number of the papers has something to do with these complaints, but one great cause of unwillingness to give liberally is to be found in the fact that the givers have only the faintest idea where all the money goes to. The Hokey Pokey Club need money to purchase new uniforms, or to play the Yale Club. A subscription-paper is passed around, the club appear in their uniforms...
...will sit in the next year's boat, and that seven veterans will guard the base-ball laurels twice won from Yale. The vacant places will indeed be hard to fill, but there is a host of material to pick from; and the impulse which our victories will give to athletics ought to enable Harvard to send out even a stronger crew and nine than any she has sent out for years...
...preserving, for the sake of races, the divisions according to residence; that the membership fee be ten dollars, and that every member of the University who subscribes ten dollars or more to the crew be made a member of the new H. U. B. C., and that the crew give up to the club their shells and barges as they are through with them. The writer shows with a few figures that, by his plan, the expenses of the crew, the rent of both boat-houses, and the salary of a janitor could be paid, and leave a balance...
...clock Professor Steams will give a lunch to the candidates in Theology, at his house...
...goodies are not wholly to blame for the wretched way in which they do their work. What kind of attention can we expect a woman will give to sweeping and dusting, who is paid only forty cents a week for the care of each room under her charge? The trouble lies in the parsimony of the financial managers, who prefer to employ the untidy, clumsy, unintelligent Irish at the rate of fourteen or eighteen dollars per month (in proportion to the number of rooms cleaned), than to secure, at slightly higher rates, neat, careful, and efficient workwomen...