Word: pay
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Burdett being absent. He agreed with his opponent in considering the moral side of the question not a strong argument. The question at issue was, he said, shall the nine be allowed to go to neighboring towns and play a few games with professionals for gate receipts to pay the professionals with? He cited President Elliot's statement concerning our present social condition and the opinion in which Harvard is held by people at large who, if asked what they think of having the Harvard base-ball club going about playing ball with professionals clubs, would think...
...issue really was. The free traders are not willing to allow the question of protection to go fairly and squarely before the country, but load it with cries and catches, many of which are entirely without foundation. It was said, for instance, that there were 4,000 articles that pay duty-the President even says so in his message-but Mr. Lodge, after making a careful count of all the enumerated articles, finds that there are only 1,112. The idea that the present tariff is a war tariff is also false. We have always had a tariff of some...
...expenses set in President Eliot's last report, where he comments upon Professor Palmer's speech. Under the next column, "Economical," occur some remarkable items, the most noticeable of which is perhaps $25 for a servant. It can hardly be called economical for a man of limited means to pay his janitor $25 for blacking boots and tending the fire. With a few exceptions the estimates for an economical man should be about what are given under the column "Least without assistance," but some of these even are too high. The allowance for sundries should be reduced as before...
THOSE WHO DO NOT WISH TO PAY FOR BOOKS NOW MAY TAKE ADVANTAGE OF TODAY'S PRICES BY WRITING ORDERS FOR ANY BOOKS IN STOCK, AND HAVING THE BOOKS RESERVED TO BE PAID FOR ON OR BEFORE...
...well-known amateur base-ball nine of Boston, have organized for the coming season, and will play their usual game with Harvard, probably on Fast Day. This club stands at the head of all the amateur nines in the country, and is in fact purely amateur, as no pay whatever has ever been given to a player, even for a single game. Many of the members are college-graduates and interest is kept up during the winter by monthly dinners. It used to be said that the club never played two games in a season with exactly the same nine...