Word: pay
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hard to realize the demoralizing effect of such a debt hanging over each new captain, and hampering his every action. Considerably over one third of the money raised by subscriptions goes to pay up the debt transmitted from the previous year, and leaves far too little for the current expenses. For the past two years the debt has not increased, and if the college will make an effort and pay off the existing debt this year, the club will be enabled in future to carry on their affairs on a cash basis, which will lessen the actual expenses, prevent tradesmen...
This is the time if ever to pay off the debt. It is a year after victory, and also a year when there was no foot-ball team to support. Moreover, the club is making an effort to repair the launch through the aid of graduates, and many of them have subscribed only on condition that the undergraduates will make a vigorous attempt to pay off the debt this year...
Last year $3,650.00 was raised by subscriptions. If we can raise $4,600.00 we think we can pay up all expenses of this year, and begin next October free of debt...
...Columbia freshmen pay their boat club subscriptions by installments...
When a student enters a corps, all that he does is to pay his fee and buy his cap. When he pays his fee, however, he takes upon himself a great many tasks; he is obliged to be a regular servant of the other students who are higher in rank than himself, taking care that they are provided with the most comfortable chairs in a "Kneip," and other things of this kind, and, besides, he is obliged to fight duels. He has a certain time given him, I think from two to four months, in which to take lessons...