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...Princeton Athletic Association will turn over to the university $10,000 yearly, representing the former upkeep expenses of the wooden stands. Formerly extra wooden stands had to be constructed each year for the football game with Harvard or Yale. The new Palmer Memorial Stadium makes this extra expense unnecessary and the amount of the saving in labor and material each year will henceforth be turned over to the university...
...important practical consideration. In the second place, a University should offer opportunities for the development of a well-rounded man, a man both physically and mentally strong. When, then, the hundred and fifty-five thousand dollars shown by the report plus the twelve thousand or so for the upkeep of Hemenway Gymnasium are placed beside the two and a half million odd expended yearly in the operation of the University, far from disproportionately large for athletics. They seem unusually reasonable. At least the body is in no danger of receiving a preponderance of attention over the mind...
...good repair. The condition of Dunster street and Boylston as far out as the Stadium, and of those streets around the Post Office block is disgraceful, even making every allowance for the wear occasioned by subway construction. In fact it seems that the city takes no interest in the upkeep of ways chiefly used by College men, Bow street and Massachusetts avenue being further examples of this. In winter the crossings are but carelessly cleared and in summer watering carts are rarely seen...