Word: paid
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...this we have already paid $150; there is a balance on hand of $132.05. To cover the bill which will be in before Jan. 1, $450 more is required. This leaves no margin; with smaller receipts we must beg for delay or borrow. There are only ten days in which to get it, before the whole college-the committee with the rest-will have scattered...
Last spring we had abundant opportunity to ferment a spirit of "strife" over the disgraceful conduct of a certain member of the Harvard nine on the Yale field, and also over the malignant articles which appeared in Harvard papers-on the game where no regard was paid to the truth-but we let it pass by in silence for the sake of that good feeling which we joined heart and soul in trying to bring about. The manly spirit as displayed by our athletic teams and by the college in general, we think is quite on a "level" with that...
There is a project at the Institute of Technology for establishing a scholarship in memory of the late President Rogers. It is proposed to raise the required fund by contributions from alumni to be paid in annual installments...
...doors to receive an education to get it simply by natural ability and steady application, without being dependent upon outside help, as disbursements of almost sixty thousand dollars a year in scholarships will truthfully attest. It is a notorious fact that its corps of professors and instructors is worse paid than at many of the smaller colleges, and yet they refuse the most tempting offers ot go elsewhere, sacrificing themselves for the love of their alma mater. And still the hue and cry continues, "Don't go to Harvard unless you are rich." It is impossible to see how such...
...they cannot even appreciate that changes are taking place, much less understand the significance of those changes. To those who are still in the dark as to our intents, we would say that we advocate an improvement in the tone of Harvard life which will wipe out the deference paid "to pink shirts and bull-pups...