Word: supported
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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GENTLEMEN who have subscribed for the support of the Crew are requested to hold themselves in readiness to pay their subscriptions to the treasurer or collector, who will call within a few-days. It is important that the subscriptions should be paid as soon as possible...
Later on we got to the Colleges, which occupy a great deal of valuable property, and, I was informed, almost entirely support the expenses of the city. The Yard was very gay with hacks and stages, and looked as cheerful as our old camp-meetings. It was very different from the Puritanic university Prexie Short Hair told us of; but, then, he came there in vacation, and may have got a one-sided idea of student life at Harvard...
...that it has been decided that there will be no Freshman race with Yale this year, the disposition of the money subscribed for their crew must be considered by the Freshman class. It is a subject which does not need great consideration. The money was subscribed to support our interests in a contest with Yale, and the natural disposition of it would be to place it in the hands of the treasurer of the H. U. B. C. We cannot imagine any objections to this course. It is well known that the support of the University crew will...
...times a week presents itself to those who elect Latin 8 or Latin 9. Where fifty men are packed into a room of the size of U. 24, the amount of fresh air left at the end of ten minutes for each man to breathe is barely sufficient to support life, and under such trying circumstances even Tacitus grows commonplace and Plautus prosy. The substitution of a room as large as U. 16 would be hailed with rejoicing...
...then will be the time when indifference will vanish. With us, contest for rank and scholarships is not a contest of brains. He takes the highest rank who happens by any means to amass the highest number of marks among the men who try for high marks. The scholarships support fools who have simply a moderate capacity for work and very empty pockets. Nothing more is necessary to secure such honors as are held out, and yet we wonder at the indifference of those who cannot be made to see that they are worth having. Virtue...