Word: money
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...that the figure parts of a first-class window cost from $15 to $20 per square foot, and the decorative parts from $8 to $12; and it is much better to spend more and obtain one which has some merit in it, than to throw away a sum of money on a poor one. Doubtless $1,200 or $1,500 would be quite a heavy tax upon the collegiate pocket, but for such an object no student would refuse to give $5, and two thirds of the class, by giving $10 or $15 apiece, would easily contribute enough money...
Through the kindness of the Dean we have been furnished with the following, - the only vote passed on the subject: "14th December, Voted, That no musical or theatrical exhibition for money be given in public by the students, without leave of the Faculty." It will be seen that this vote is strictly non-committal, and is by no means intended to imply that such exhibitions ever will be allowed; still we no longer have any opportunity to complain that it is a peremptory and complete prohibition...
...reason for these decisions is, as we understand it, this: That students, by demanding money for their performances, put themselves in the light of professionals before the public, and thereby lower their own dignity and that of the College. Parents may thus be deterred from sending their sons to Harvard, and the high tone of the University lost. It is not likely that any large number regard our entertainments as hurtful in themselves...
...deny the right of the Faculty to restrict the students' independence in such matters. For ourselves, we cannot see how the same reasons which would lead the Faculty to oppose an extended tour of the Glee Club should also lead them to prohibit all performances for money in Cambridge and Boston, where nine tenths of the audience are always the friends and relatives of the performers, and the fee is asked merely to defray expenses, and contribute to the support of boating. Cases by no means parallel have been regarded in the same light...
...money from each stingy better...