Word: stay
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Your editorial says, that the crew are provided with rowing uniforms in profusion, and that $150 are spent in providing them a loafing shore uniform, a luxury which for a three weeks stay in a secluded cabin on the banks of the Thames seems altogether unnecessary...
...made. But why should $150.00 be spent in buying them a loafing shore uniform. Such is the price which blazers, caps, and white trousers cost. They are not worn nor needed by the men while in Cambridge. To provide them with such luxuries for a three week's stay in a secluded cabin on the bank of the Thames River at New London, seems altogether unnecessary. It indicates a looseness in the handling of the crew money, which it would be well to investigate more closely. No insinuation against the present manager is implied, but a protest against the habits...
...more gratifying at the present crisis when the course of the university seems to be backward. The prayer petition refused, Greek downtrodden, foot ball abolished,- at such a time, what a relief to find one body of men so alive to the interests of the hour ! Yet stay. Can it be that this unexpected, and reckless waste of money is prompted by the expectation of the numerous sheckels which will flow into the strong box of the association this morning, as the members line up to pay an additional fifty cents for their tickets over the price which...
...ladies are only invited to attend it on condition that they witness several sparring encounters, together with the other games which they come to see. Should the Tech. arrangement of putting all the sparring at the close of the meeting, any timid ladies would not have to stay away on account of blood. True, the variety of the programme would be somewhat marred by this change, and so would the opportunities for very long rests between the bouts. But with plenty of entries in the two events, light-weight and feather-weight sparring, the time between bouts would be sufficient...
Whenever a number of independent young men of wealth come together, more or less gambling will be carried on as a mere pastime. To say that "gambling at Harvard and other colleges has rapidly increased," implies that the number who gamble has become considerable. As regards Harvard, our stay here is not long enough to decide whether there has been an increase in the numbers of these men. We can, however, confidently state that the sentiment among the undergraduates is strongly opposed to the practice, and that this "amusement" is limited to a small and unpopular set in each class...