Word: moneyed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...have heard so many complaints about the manner in which the seats were all reserved on Saturday, that we are forced to notice it editorially. In the first place, the base-ball association has always been a money-making institution, having a large surplus in its treasury every year. Therefore there was no excuse for reserving every seat on Holmes field with the exception of the battered old stand off in right field. Secondly, in the Princeton game, all the seats from the hospital building to the clump of willows were unreserved, and it was naturally expected that the same...
George Gabriel of New Haven has left a will bequeathing $30,000 to his wife. At her death $15,000 of this sum will go to Yale College. Gabriel was an umbrella mender, and it was not supposed that he was worth any such amount of money...
LOST.- A small black chamois skin purse containing a small sum of money, between Gray's and gymnasium. Finder will please leave at Leavitt and Peirce...
...complaint which seems to us entirely just, a complaint concerning the action of the manager of the nine in raising the price of reserved seats from twenty-five to fifty cents. The base-ball club has never been a needy organization; in fact, it has always had more money than it could convenrently spend, and this too when reserved seats were thought to be worth only twenty-five cents. With this fact in view it is rather hard to understand the action of the present manager. Games to-day are no better than they were last year or the year...
...question at present of greatest interest to Yale men is whether the new recitation building is to be erected on a site such as to practically destroy the "fence" or no?" The money for the new hall was given by an unknown donor with the express provision that it be situated on the corner by the "fence." Every effort is being made to secure a change in the conditions. A large mass meeting of the students was recently held at which resolutions were unanimously adopted protesting against the proposed plans, and a committee composed of undergraduates from the different classes...