Word: stillness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...committee earnestly desires a reduction of expenses and has pointed out the only sure way to accomplish it: i. e., to pay as we go. The duties of the committee are hard enough under any circumstances. Let men see to it that the debt does not long remain to still further hamper their efforts...
Such hasty and unjust criticism as that of last Saturday can do no good, while it tends to make still harder the disagreeable duties of the men who collect money for the crew...
...communication column this morning the late treasurer of the boat club comments upon our position in regard to the boating expenditures. He says: "Such hasty and unjust criticism as that of last Saturday can do no good while it tends to make still harder the disagreeable duties of the men who collect money for the crew...
...although we are as earnest as he is to advance the financial interests of the crew, for we have declared it our belief that mismanagement, if not extravagance. has been the rule for some time past. Last June the college was surprised to learn that the boat club was still in arrears when every one had been informed that the strenuous efforts made in the winter of '85-'86 had succeeded in wiping out the indebtedness which, something over $2000 in the fall of 1884, had been $1600 in October 1885. This surprise turned into distrust when it was shown...
...shell, but, as it would not do to rely entirely on this innovation it was thought wise to buy another American shell. Either we are absolutely thick-headed or else there is some flaw in the reasoning of men who "deemed it expedient" to get an English shell and still found it necessary to buy a new American shell. Nothing is farther from us than to wish to have the chances of our crew in any way injured by a fear of spending the necessary money...