Word: making
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Would not this be very uncertain as a means of support, however? One year it might provide sufficient funds another it might not, and the Corporation, never being able to count upon a sufficient sum, would be put to the trouble and expense of providing an emergency fund to make up possible deficits. If it did prove successful, even the charge of $1.00 a day for every day's residence in the infirmary beyond five days, insufficient as it may seem, would prove a serious drain upon the resources of some fellows. It would be a great advantage to them...
...from past experience, obviously necessary to have a college infirmary; but an infirmary without an adequate income could not be run on a scale which would make it of much value. Princeton University has a good infirmary, but with no endowment or fixed means of raising income wherewith to run it, it is not much better than inoperative. If Harvard had a good infirmary, well supported, many of those fellows who were spoken of today as "always going home in case of illness," would find it more convenient to go to the infirmary instead, and they as well...
...yearly expenses of the University. Indeed, I have heard on good authority that for each $150 Harvard receives from a student's tuition fee, she expends $400. Thus every Harvard man is deeply in debt to his Alma Mater, and he should in turn be willing to make some sacrifice for the University...
...Soldiers Field for the track team is that its great distance from the Yard would cause to stop training almost all of that large proportion of the candidates who try for the team merely for the exercise and the pleasure, without expecting or hoping to make it. It is from among these men that many members of the team are developed each year. The lessened gate receipts and smaller attendance at practice games of the nine are important to note...
...Flershem, C. M. Sheafe, E. L. Sanborn, C. C. Payson, and J. Adams. The work so far has consisted merely of about ten minutes' rowing on the machines, but next week Captain Adams intends to begin exercises on the chestweights and out-door runs. He also hopes to make the training more attractive by varying it with out-door work such as skating...