Word: using
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...interests absorb nearly all the money that can be raised by subscription, and the students have discovered that, after all, non-subscribers can contrive to slip into the seats; so they are naturally disinclined to pay in advance for a seat which they not only may not wish to use, but which they might obtain without paying...
...game, would be unwilling to pay fifty cents on the spot. Receiving immediate returns for his expenditure, he would appreciate its full value. And if the Base-Ball Nine and the Athletic Association were allowed, when anything of interest was going on, to charge a fee for the use of seats, and if the seats were allowed to remain on the field during term time, - being taken down at the end of the college year, - our sporting interests would be far more prosperous, and subscription lists would cease to be the bane of college life...
...that those men who bid fair to be our more prominent writers and thinkers are induced to exercise themselves more in writing and thinking than less promising students, who will seldom need to do more than write business letters. Of course, there are many men who do not use any of these means of education, for even a theme may be bought for a few dollars; still it is through no fault of our system that men remain awkward in expressing themselves. That many of our best writers are willing to make the most of their opportunities every editor knows...
...smoking in the room. It has been proposed to confine the privileges of the room to those who pay for them by giving latch-keys to the members; so that the officers will no longer waste valuable time in dunning men who are unwilling to pay for the use they have made of the room. Subscriptions will still be received at 3 Hollis...
...Left us dead to use and name and fame...