Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...University, but chiefly from the public. At present season tickets are required for each sport and special tickets for big games, and in addition there are numerous calls for subscriptions, with consequent annoyance. There is a strong undergraduate feeling that subscriptions should be abolished. The burden of athletic support is not borne equally at present; a few pay for more than their share. With separate tickets for each sport, the one or two more fortunate ones draw the whole student body to their games; all the rest draw from a few hundred down to a handful. At present the relative...
...ticket admitting to all home games in every sport major and minor; (2) abolish subscriptions, except for class teams, and leave managers and candidates for managerships free for the legitimate work of their positions, getting men out and looking after the general needs of the teams; (3) support all teams which the Athletic Committee allows to represent the University from a common fund, accruing from gate receipts and ticket sales; (4) put responsibility for economy in expenditures on the graduate manager, and for the share allowed to non-supporting teams on the Athletic Committee...
...question of training tables has been brought to a head by the statement of a man long connected with college sports, both as a participant and as a graduate manager, that all training tables should be abolished, and by the recent vote of the Athletic Committee not to support or authorize tables for minor sports.--a vote which was later reconsidered. We are certainly at a point in athletics where we must either drop them entirely or do thoroughly what we undertake. This work cannot be limited in scope to the major sports, for taken as a whole the minor...
...cost from $8 to $10 a week. There again, all teams should have equal privileges in this direction; for instance, it hardly seems fair that the cross-country team, which requires as great ruggedness and endurance as any team in the University, should be cut off with no support and be forced to maintain its own training-table...
...Durland, the well-known writer on Russia and Siberia, will speak before the members of the Union in the Living Room at 8 o'clock tomorrow night. The object of their speeches is to present the exact state of affairs now prevalent in Russia, and to discourage further financial support to the Russian government...