Word: item
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...statement in defence of the management of your boat club. The writer of the editorial in Saturday's issue of the CRIMSON showed himself woefully ignorant of matters connected with the boat club, and so incompetent to make such a severe criticism of its management. He asks for an itemized account of the sum of $693.48 for wages. Any one acquainted with rowing affairs knows that there is a janitor in the boat-house, a skilled workman, who for years has received as wages $60 a month. Sixty times twelve are 720. The management has saved thirty dollars on that...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- A note in your Fact and Rumor column of Wednesday touches upon the advisability of the tug-of-war. I agree with those who are discouraging these contests. A case where the dangerous consequences alluded to in your item did follow has come under my personal observation. It is that of a student in the Worcester Tech, some two years ago, who was so injured by the terrible strain of a tug-of-war that for months after he did not leave his bed. His whole life long he will suffer from his injuries. Similar cases...
...item of $161 was paid back to a committee which thought last spring that it had enough money to pay for running the launch, but found last autumn, after the launch-running season was over, that it didn't have enough money after all. Is this "apparent" or real carelessness...
...item of $50 was an item two or three years old, of which only one person knew the existence. This item was not on the books. Is this "apparent" or real carelessness...
...item of $80 was due to a flaw in the contract with a railway company. In a case where one party to a contract is ignorant of the provisions of the contract is ignorant of the provisions of the contract, would the average man say that the ignorant party is careful or careless? If careless, is the carelessness real or only "apparent...