Word: pay
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...able to be reconciled to the separation of great wisdom from great character. The former, if present without the latter, can lay no claim to merit. If men forget that we have had four centuries of printing, and so seek to make encyclopaedias of themselves, they must pay the penalty of their forgetfulness, for the days of the admiration of walking dictionaries are past. It is this absence of character which these verses intimate, and an absence of the respect which character would have inspired, but without which wisdom is belittled and its aspect made deplorable...
...date $1,785.61 have been paid into the treasury for the crew, besides about $400 have been raised to pay the rent on the boat-house. Most of this money has been used in paying last year's bills, and the crew will be all but pinched to get through both races. Subscriptions have been as large this year as last, but the amount netted from theatricals has been but half, - five hundred dollars...
...Immediately after the Springfield race these men will go to Saratoga and row in a six. The Executive Committee of the H. U. B. C. have decided to try a paper boat in the Saratoga race, and an effort will be made to obtain subscriptions from graduates to pay for it. So much has been done by the undergraduates towards meeting the expenses of the crew this year, that it is earnestly hoped that the graduates will see the necessity of lending us some aid. In case it should not be found possible to raise the requisite amount...
...account of the financial condition of the University Nine is given by the treasurer in another column. So far the Nine has managed to pay its expenses through the year, without asking for subscriptions except for their uniforms. They have played many games, and the gate-money taken has usually met their expenses, without leaving a surplus. This week they play two games, - one in Boston and the other in Taunton; and next week two on Jarvis. Saturday the 24th they go to New Haven and play with Yale on Monday; they go then to play Trinity and Princeton...
...this the H. U. B. C. will have to pay a rent of ten per cent...