Word: paying
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Subscriptions are being taken to pay the salary of a general secretary for the association. This office will greatly strengthen the whole work of the association, and it is hoped that the subscriptions may be readily filled...
From February, 1896, when the "Free Clinic" at this hospital was first opened to the public, to August, some 1200 cases were treated. In this way, valuable practical instruction for the students is combined with charity to those who can not afford to pay for the best veterinary treatment of the animals they...
...first is, "that instead of being a good-natured scramble for flowers it has become a fight to pay off old scores." The facts prove this statement to be an exaggeration. I believe the almost unanimous testimony of the men who have witnessed or taken part in the scrimmages of the past few years will bear me out when I say that the following is a more exact statement of the facts: There have been sporadic instances of encounters between quick-tempered individuals. The vaguest rumor is the only foundation for the statement that these men were "scrapping to pay...
...scrimmage, first, because football clothes, which are dirty and offensive, are necessarily worn in the presence of refined ladies; second, because if football clothes were not worn, such weaker garments as were used would be stripped off; third, because the scrimmage has become a fight in which to pay off old scores instead of a good-natured scramble; fourth, because with any form of scrimmage, even such as we proposed with every day clothes on and with lowered flowers, there would necessarily be roughness on account of the present large numbers in the class; and last, because they feel that...
...football team. In neither case are the wearers of the clothes so near the spectators that the clothes need be "offensive." There has been unfortunately some small ground for the objection that the scrimmage has become, to use the extreme language of the communication, a "fight in which to pay off old scores instead of a good-natured scramble." Whatever trouble there may have been in past years has been caused by placing the flowers so high that it was necessary for groups of men to combine and struggle with other combinations in order to get them...