Word: smalls
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Owing to the disappointingly small sum raised last week, the cash boxes for receipt of 25 cent subscriptions for cups to be given to last year's 'Varsity nine, were not removed from Leavitt's and Memorial on Saturday night but will be left out till Thursday...
Entirely optional subscriptions are inevitably hard to start even when they call for small contributions, since the individual donation seems to play so unimportant a part in the final whole. The success of such subscriptions naturally lies with the spirit of the community in which they are started. Whether the present subscription for cups to be given to the '97 'Varsity nine is a failure or a success thus rests with the undergraduates. To us it seems that the permanent recognition of winning teams by prizes coming from the fellows themselves is an extremely good precedent to establish. We therefore...
...alternate The trial took the form of a regular debate, with twelve minute opening speeches and five minutes allowed each man for rebuttal, and the plan proved very successful. The speakers were evenly divided and gave a strong, finished debate. Considering this fact the attendance was deplorably small...
...point remains. Last night's debate was of a character which might well have interested a large audience, and the audience present was unstisfactorily small. Everyone must realize of what importance a full house is to any trial, and no system can be fully justified without...
...very natural that a subscription such as the one to raise money for cups for the '97 'Varsity nine, should be slow in getting started. When so small a sum is asked from each man, and when there are so many to give, fellows are apt to be a bit thoughtless and not go out of their way to drop a quarter in the box. As we do not wish to leave the boxes out more than a week, we must request the college public to get a gait...