Word: shared
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...each sport and special tickets for big games, and in addition there are numerous calls for subscriptions, with consequent annoyance. There is a strong undergraduate feeling that subscriptions should be abolished. The burden of athletic support is not borne equally at present; a few pay for more than their share. With separate tickets for each sport, the one or two more fortunate ones draw the whole student body to their games; all the rest draw from a few hundred down to a handful. At present the relative importance of a sport should not be judged by the attendance. Most...
...sports were combined with one H. A. A. ticket admitting to everything, including all Yale and Princeton games, and the price of the ticket made so low as to be within reach of all, and regarded as each man's share or contribution for sport and permanent improvement rather than as an admittance ticket, an improved athletic situation could hardly fail to result...
Finally the landowners found this system very disadvantageous, for the landlord's share continually increased while the owner's decreased. The land was hired out to intermediaries, who exacted heavy rent, thus forcing it to support three masters. This led to a constant abandoning and recolonization, so that land, good for cultivation, became a luxury, and since the sixteenth century, intensive cultivation has been going on rapidly...
...this skill, under the direction of a master mind. This shows that the essential feature of the production of wealth is not labor, as the socialists claim, but rather the ability of the inventive and directing brain. Therefore there is no reason why laborers should receive a greater share of the proceeds of industry as wages, which many socialists claim they deserve...
...that not one undergraduate in a hundred knows anything definite about the situation, and that not one can find out anything definite if he tries. The men in the University have a vital interest in athletics, even if for no other reason than that they do the largest share in supporting them, and they ought at least to know something about them. Publicity would also help athletics greatly, for under present circumstances such evils as there are never come out to be remedied, and the impossibility of getting information lends credence to every story that gets abroad. If athletics were...