Word: moneyed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...recent years been developed. In the first place, the time devoted to these sports by the principal teams and crews is excessive. No sport which requires of the players more than two hours a day during term time is fit for college uses. The large sums of gate money are often wastefully and ineffectively spent. To football there is the special objection that although its risks are inordinate and excessive, the recent development of the game has made it more and more dangerous, without making it more skiful or interesting...
...Trophy Room was fitted up for its special purposes about twelve years ago. The classes then in college gave athletic exhibitions by which they netted a large sum of money. This they used to buy the case in which are the trophy baseballs and to buy photographs of the teams. On the walls they placed tablets on which were to be put the records made from time to time in track athletics. The custom of having the photograph of each team placed in the room, together with a record of what it had done, was maintained for several years. Later...
...bill accompanying the petition provides punishment for any person "who takes part in a game of football when a game is played in the presence of persons who have paid an admission fee to witness the game, or who promotes the playing of a game of football when money is charged for admission to the same, or who offers or sells a ticket of admission to a game, or who while a student in an institution of learning and while engaged in a game of football, beats, strikes or intentionally wounds or bruises another person engaged in playing such game...
...offered to the university for $12,500 in case the regents will have such changes made as will enable the builders to put it into University Hall, which accommodates 3,000 people. The regents have voted to make the changes, and there seems to be no doubt that the money will be forthcoming...
...shall administer it, will be published. This, it is hoped, will bring the matter down from the air and put it on a firm business basis. We emphasize again the fact that men are not urged to give subscriptions; they are simply furnished with the opportunity. If sums of money come to us each day we shall publish an account each day, telling how the fund stands; otherwise, as we have promised before, we shall publish this account every few days. As a last word we ask the students to consider this matter and to make it better known; when...