Word: money
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...stated that the debt of the club had been increased about $1,200 during the past year, and that it would require $4,000 to pay off the debt and support the crew for '76-'79. Last year was necessarily a very expensive one. To the large amount of money (about $2,000) paid for new boats was added the expense of keeping the crew for weeks at a training-table while still in Cambridge. The receipts from college subscriptions were about the same as in former years, but there was less than half the usual amount received from theatricals...
...race, and the boats intended for those who row for exercise only were, except in a few instances, not used at all. The University Crew, when placed beside a first-rate crew, made no show whatever, and when placed beside ordinary crews, lost its chance of winning simply because money enough was not raised to buy a boat in season to prepare for the race. All this must be attributed to the lack of interest in boating...
...addition to these bills, there are to be two more games on Jarvis Field, at an expense of twenty-five dollars each, at which no money can be taken...
...account of the financial condition of the University Nine is given by the treasurer in another column. So far the Nine has managed to pay its expenses through the year, without asking for subscriptions except for their uniforms. They have played many games, and the gate-money taken has usually met their expenses, without leaving a surplus. This week they play two games, - one in Boston and the other in Taunton; and next week two on Jarvis. Saturday the 24th they go to New Haven and play with Yale on Monday; they go then to play Trinity and Princeton...
...which they pursue. The excessive amount of mathematics required in the Freshman year is profitable alone to the tutors, who reap a rich harvest before every examination. The proof of what we say may be found in the number of students who are obliged to spend large sums of money in order to be put up to enough "points" to pass the examinations, and the absolute ignorance of the subject which they display a very short time after the examination is over...