Word: worded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...have been asked to add a word of explanation to the paper which is sent out with this number of the CRIMSON. Some of the professors and students, in conference with Professor Peabody, have desired to establish a plan by which students who are in prosperity can help students who are in need. They have felt that many students, especially seniors, would be willing to give away some of their books, clothing, furniture, etc., instead of selling them, provided arrangements could be made by which such supplies should be carefully distributed or lent to persons who need them. In particular...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- A phrase in the recent Class Day circular, containing the word "tradesmen," has not been understood. Please allow me to say something concerning it through your columns...
...business of speculating in Class Day tickets. They obtain the tickets in divers ways, and offer them publicly for sale. In this way numbers of thoroughly objectionable people get into the yard, and it was mainly to curtail one of the sources of supply of these clerks that the word "tradesmen" was used...
...word "tradesmen" was intended to cover the two limited cases above, and that is all. Perhaps the word was badly selected to express our meaning, but we thought it would be generally understood. The committee is acting solely with the desire to make Class Day as pleasant as possible, and to that end we ask that tickets be given to seniors' friends, and to them only. We do not wish to curtail any one's rights to give tickets to his friends, for that is what the ticketsare for. On the contrary we wish to make the enjoyment...
...word more. It is unjust to the body of students at large to have all the good sections on Holmes Field reserved, for one thing and another. At the last Princeton game, the seats behind third base, which have always been the stronghold of the students at large and the strongest centre of the cheering, was reserved for the holders of season tickets. The only sections open to ordinary mortals, who could afford neither reserved seats nor season tickets were two or three sections between the back stop and the hospital, where one had to face the delightfully fascinating glare...