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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...committee from undergraduates, the movement, entailing only promises, being accompanied by considerable enthusiasm. On the date that the last payment of the subscriptions was due, suitable notice appeared and repeated later efforts were made to secure payment. Today 205, just one firth of last year's pledges, are paid in full. As a last resort the committee is undertaking an individual postcard canvass of the delinquents, in the hope of eliciting a few more of the promised contributions. But the quantity of unredeemed pledges, two months after all should have been paid, seem to reflect, upon the part...
Transportation to and from the camps must be paid for by the student, as must also the board and regulation Army clothing. The latter can be procured for anywhere from $5 to $10 per man, while the food in camp is supplied at the rate of $3.50 a week or $12.50 for the entire period of five weeks. The government will furnish, without charge, tents, cots, blankets, infantry equipment and such other articles of quartermaster or ordinance property as may be found necessary. Instruction, with the co-operation of troops of the regular army, will be given in all branches...
There are now 4,631 handkerchiefs left over for next year. These are already paid for and can be sold next year at 5 cents apiece for a clear profit of $231.55, at which time the money advanced by the Athletic Association will be returned...
Little attention was paid this contest by the general public, mention of it being found in only one Boston paper, and that confined to a scant ten lines announcing the game and ending with this single sentence of general criticism of the affair. "There was a large crowd and much enthusiasm." In spite of the lack of general interest which it aroused, this game on May 15, 1874, marked the beginning of a football regime which has reached its highest point before 47,000 spectators today...
...shops was started by the women of Chicago. It was ascertained that children of 12 years of age were being employed in intensely hot glass-works; that the average life of these children after they went to work was between four and five years and that they were being paid $1.50 to $2.00 a week. This was about 1893 and the women immediately set to work to fight the legislature. They were combatted by the Illinois Manufacturers Association and defeated at first, but at last they succeeded in passing a law which made 14 the minimum age for the employment...