Word: pay
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Attention is also called to the following resolution recently adopted: "No person now connected with the University shall be entitled to membership, if he refuse to pay either his initiation fee or the dues arising for the year succeeding his election...
...then, we substitute-mental for written notes, particularly as to the heads of arguments and other matters of the kind; if we pay special attention to whatever memorizing occurs in any of our work, particularly with a view to retaining the matter permanently, by rehearsing it at intervals of a few weeks; if in general we recall and fix in our minds what is tending to slip away, so as to remember more, even though learning less; and finally, if we remember that what is slowest learned is slowest forgotten, and so give more attention to every-day work...
...take pleasure in recording the generosity of a public-spirited Junior, who has offered to pay one tenth of the debt on the Reading-Room, if nine other men can be found to subscribe equal amounts...
...time crying out against the ridiculously expensive star system, and yet does all it can to encourage it by going only on nights when the star sings. Half a house at "Aida," and a house and a half at "Faust"! Who can complain if the operatic manager continues to pay $1, 500 a night as long as he can squeeze that sum out of the long-suffering and long-eared public...
...committee proceed to remark on the pleasing increase of interest in metaphysics and psychology, and pay a deserved compliment to the Alford Professor, whose gentlemanly, kind, and interesting conduct of recitations in the "vast and elevated regions of studies confided to him" is remarked by all who have the good-fortune to be his pupils...