Word: moneys
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...next charge in support of the statement "that the Harvard Management have offered pecuniary assistance to players" is that offers of money were made to Mr. Ammerman of the University of Pennsylvania. In proof of this the "evidence" offers an extract from a letter of Mr. Ammerman, published in the Philadelphia Press on Nov. 26, 1889, as follows...
DEAR SIR:-In the spring of 1889, when I was a special student in Harvard College, I obtained, by the assistance of a member of the football team, a place in a store in Cambridge, and also a small loan of money from a Harvard student...
...have not contented ourselves with an investigation of the charges presented by the officers of the Princeton Association, but have carried our inquiries further. We can discover no trace of the payment, or offer, of money to any person to play upon the Harvard teams this year. Employment has in a case or two been secured for men of moderate means by those interested in them. And there was in 1888-89 the instance, referred to above, in which an athletic man, not then a member of any team, borrowed a sum of money for college expenses from a fellow...
...purpose of engaging in intercollegiate contests; and, secondly, putting on teams good players who are not in reality amateurs, but have received compensation for the practice of their sport. In many cases this has goue no further than the acceptance of board, travelling expenses, and perhaps a money allowance for incidentals. Present players on various college teams-in Princeton. Yale, and Harvard alike-have accepted such pecuniary advantages. But in other cases it has included the acceptance of money for playing particular games, the acceptance of a salary for teaching athletics, and the practice of athletics for a livelihood. According...
...should not make an exception to the detriment of the silver men. We need an increasing currency to meet the constantly increasing demands of the business of the country. Almost the entire annual yield of gold is used in the arts, so that if we are to have more money it must be silver...