Word: pay
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Boxer was a sly fellow. He had always managed to get ahead of me thus far. I was bound to pay him up sometime for the many jokes he had had at my expense. One day I heard him say he was going cod-fishing next morning at three o'clock, off Mackerel Point. Now was my chance. I'd set out at two, get on the ground first, and catch all the fish before he was up. Then how I would grin at him when he came along an hour afterward! With what coolness I would hold...
...some of the societies for the pursuit of knowledge, is the lack of a qualification for membership. In the Natural History Society and the Art Club, for example, there are many men who have no other qualification for membership than that they are pleasant fellows and can afford to pay the dues. Instead of admitting only men who are fitted for membership, either by great proficiency or enthusiasm in the subject, many are proposed for membership by their friends, and elected, simply that they may boast one more shingle or medal. These men have the effect of diluting the real...
...object of the undertaking, which, as already stated, was designed in a great measure for the instruction of the students. Some plan should therefore be devised by which these men may have the same opportunity with their wealthier classmates. An extra performance, with tickets costing just enough to pay expenses, would be a practicable way of giving them this opportunity, and it is to be hoped that some such means will be taken for making the Greek play a performance by and for the students...
...College rooms. And in fact, does it not seem that when a student who has occupied a room for one year and done nothing towards improving it, is considered to have a prior claim to that room against perhaps a dozen new-comers, who are willing and eager to pay the rent for it, - does it not seem that a man who has really spent labor and money upon improving a piece of ground, has a better claim to it than one who merely is the first to get out his white-wash in the fall or spring...
...Athletic Club will take place on March 14 and 15 next, and that of the Manhattan Athletic Club on the following day, March 16, - both to be held at the Madison Square Garden, New York. The latter is given for the purpose of raising sufficient money to pay the expenses of Myers in England. Among other attractions, Myers himself will attempt to beat his own 3-4-mile record, in which attempt he will be assisted by several prominent amateurs; as, L. A. Stuart, Voorhees, White, &c., who will run with him in turn, relieving each other at intervals...