Word: moneyed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Someone interested in Princeton athletics, who does not wish his name to be known, has given a large sum of money for the improvement of the athletic grounds there, and they have accordingly been enlarged to nearly double the size of last year. The hill on the west side of the old field has been taken away and the clay carted to the south side, where it has been used to fill up an old hollow. The hollow corner at the northeast has also been filled in, and space sufficient for three or four new football fields has thus been...
...field through the winter, as the slide could be built without injury to the ground. It would be easy to plan a slide of considerable length on these fields. The expense would be small if a large number of men entered into the scheme, and the return for the money would more than repay the outlay. If anything is to be done towards obtaining a slide this year, it should be done at once before the snow covers the ground. I hope that all men interested in tobogganing will help to carry out this suggestion, and thus to secure...
...there were so few tickets for New Haven sold, the reduced rate cannot be obtained. The men who bought coupon tickets will receive their money back at Leavitt and Pierce...
Moreover, there is an element of injustice in allowing a man to spend money, time and energy in preparing for a race which he is not to be allowed to enter. We have had the evils and inconveniences of the system so well illustrated in a recent case of disqualification that we cannot but recommend the consideration of the matter by the proper authorities...
...Princeton an undeserved snub, and secures for us her enmity and absolutely nothing else whatever. We seem to forget that so long as the Yale-Princeton game occurs in New York on Thanksgiving day, it will remain the great event of the year, the one that brings in most money to the athletic associations of the colleges competing, the one the great athletes who compete or look on will look forward to with keenest expectation. Until we win, therefore, and earn a place in that game, our efforts toward a dual league will result practically in a dual league between...