Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...next spring is by no means rosy-hued, but the conditions under which the candidates will be able to work have never been better. In the first place we have a professional coach, and secondly, the nine will play some games with professional clubs. These advantages will tend to offset the loss of so many members of last year's team, and what with conscientious work on the part of those who are candidates for the nine and an energetic and unselfish devotion on the part of its captain the nine ought this year to be worthy of the confidence...
...student may need to spend largely but a certain circumstance enables him to do so,- I mean the matchless benevolence of those who have preceded us here. The great sums interested to us for distribution in prizes, loan funds and scholarships make it possible for our students to offset the cost of their education to such a degree that the not output of a poor boy is probably less than in most New England colleges. At any rate, I have asked a large number of poor students why they came to expensive Harvard, and again and again I have received...
...college life and pleasures would be shortened, and the social life of his senior year spoiled, no graduating with his class, no class day honors. Yes, in a measure his social life in college would end with his junior year, but would that small consideration be sufficient to offset the splendid advantages and added time for his life work...
Though the club was supposed to have started clear this year, it owed, in reality, seven hundred and thirty five dollars and seventy-five cents ($735.75). To offset this debt, there was a balance of one hundred and sixty dollars and three cents...
...cheapen the cost of living at Harvard. The subject seems bound to come up for discussion ever so often; then for a while it is laid away again. Without doubt the necessary expenses here are greater than at any other college in the country. But this cost is partly offset by the fact that it is possible to earn much more money here than elsewhere; the scholarships are larger and more numerous, and the chances to find tutoring are better. So it often happens that men can get along here with less outside help than at any other college...