Word: statement
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Captain White of the Exeter nine, denies the statement in the last number of the Week's Sport to the effect that a professional would catch for the Exeter nine during the coming season...
According to the itemized statement of the receipts and expenses of the Cornell football association, recently published in the Sun, the amount of the former is $2,425.88, and the latter $2,825, including the debt of last year...
...steward at Memorial is authority for the statement that 355 dozen eggs were consumed yesterday at lunch...
Apropos of this last statement the statistics of the Dean in regard to the number of men dropped from the different classes since 1882, are interesting and instructive. In 1882, 14 men were dropped; in 1887, 61, in 1888, 46; in 1889, 47. Although an unusual number were dropped in 1887 (more than in the two following years) it appears that on the whole the number of dropped men has increased quite regularly during the last eight years. At present an average of one man in every eleven is dropped from the freshman class. Eight years ago there was only...
...that a debt of this kind has been put upon the class merely from the carelessness of one individual, and we hope that a satisfactory explanation will be made. The fact remains, however, that the money will have to be raised shortly, and the class will doubtless ask a statement to be made in regard to the matter. Whether or not the fault lay with a lack of generosity on the part of the class last spring, nothing remains now for the members to do but to subscribe so liberally as to liquidate the debt immediately and entirely...