Word: support
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...last man I visited that night gave me his reasons for subscribing, and they seemed to be sound ones. "The boat-clubs, the ball nine, the foot-ball team, the goodies, the waiters, and the reading-room deserve some support from students, but the periodicals that discuss undergraduate thought and tell us what is going on around us merit the encouragement of all who are interested in anything outside of their own dinner or their own position on the rank list. As long as I am in college, I intend to take your paper, as well as the Advocate...
...hoped that the Faculty, influenced by the success of this year, will continue in the future to give its sanction to such an excellent method of raising funds for the support of our crew...
...with its utility to the students. Still, there are other changes apparently desirable to which we would like to call attention. It seems some-what remarkable that a library which expends $15,000 annually in purchasing books should, nevertheless, oblige students to raise by subscription the $300 needed to support a reading-room, and should in no way encourage their voluntary efforts. The sum, it is true, is not large, but it is not easy to raise among students who find so many subscription-papers awaiting them; and were it not for the energetic efforts...
...speak calmly of the petty thefts of members; but when I see a fellow who refuses to pay two dollars a year for the support of the Reading-Room deliberately spend the mornings over the new papers, thereby depriving members of their own property, - more than that, when I see him cut out pieces from the papers and pocket Scribner's, my voice rises in "righteous indignation...
...Reading-Room Association enters upon a new year in an unusually prosperous condition. Through the energy and skilful management of the directors last year a larger surplus than usual was left in the treasury; and with proper support from the members of the various classes success is certain. It has been suggested that the reading-room be open evenings; but the heavy debt incurred for gas when this suggestion was carried out a few years ago still cripples the Association somewhat, and makes it averse to a repetition of the experiment at present. Meanwhile the directors have begun a vigorous...