Word: pay
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: At a meeting of the board of directors at Memorial Hall, three hundred dollars were voted to pay for fitting up the office of the auditor. In the first place, I think it would be interesting to the college to know the reasons for this expenditure. Does the hall greatly need such an office at a time when the question of the price of board is always a matter of considerable dispute and dissatisfaction? If we really need this additional accommodation, is it fair that it should all be paid for by this year's boarders...
...have the privilege of a private room, which entails the extra expense of gas, keeping the room clean, etc. Since, by personal observation, there are five or six empty tables in the hall, why must we bear this expense? Should the luxuries of the majority be taken away to pay for the pleasures...
...This was of no avail; one of their number climbed the pole like a monkey and captured the trophy. On reaching the ground a rush was made for the prize, and during the melee the police arrived on the scene making several arrests. The students were made to pay heavily for their sport and the New Haven treasury received a handsome amount to replace the halyards destroyed...
...students have of deciding who shall pay for the oysters. Several students come in and sit down. One opens the book and all note what letter of the alphabet is the second in the second line from the top of the left-hand page. The book is passed to each student in turn, who cuts or opens to a new place. He who has the letter furthest down the alphabet from the letter A has to pay for the oysters...
...informed that but fifty odd men have paid up their subscriptions to the Reading-Room Association. Those who have given their names as subscribers should without delay pay the small fee required for membership. The leading dailies, and as many of the prominent periodicals and magazines as the limited means of the association can afford, have already been placed in the reading-room, and the room itself is well heated, but there seems to be, so far, a lack of appreciation on the part of the college in general. Certainly the least to be done by those who have signified...