Word: collectively
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...gymnasium is not suitably equipped for winter practice, and there is almost no opportunity for batting. It is a recognized fact that a cage is indispensable for the formation of a good nine, and this accident is very serious. The men interested in base-ball are trying to collect funds to erect a new cage on the site of the old one, and it is hoped that work will be begun upon it within a few weeks...
...last paragraph of the report deserves especial attention. Complaint is made that the old custom of each man at the training tables paying what his board had previously cost him, has for some unknown reason been abandoned, and that now it is sometimes difficult to collect any money for board at all. We had always presumed that certain conscientious scruples would prevent a man, although a member of a university team, from living entirely at the expense of the college, and that as a matter of course, he would pay at the regular training table what he had been accustomed...
...greater part of the old poetry perished before the period when the cultivated Arabs began to collect the poems of their ancestors. The language of the Bedouins was the standard of purity during the highest period of Mohammedan civilization...
...could furnish no music and that it would be necessary for the students to raise a subscription if they desired to have a band at the head of their line. It was decided by the meeting to raise the money needed if possible and each marshal was authorized to collect small sums from those who were willing to give. A blue book for subscription has already been placed at Bartlett's. Blue books have also been placed at Brine's two stores for the signatures of those who intend to march in the parade. The books will remain open until...
...most successful books for summer reading recently published is George Riddle's Readings. It was a happy thought to collect those pieces, in the presentation of which Mr. Riddle has made his reputation, and publish them in the form of a book. The volume is made up of the writings, humorous and otherwise, of several of the best known authors, and there is no trace of the cheap literature which some readers make use of to amuse their audiences. The book is tastefully bound and is as well an ornament as a real companion. We heartily recommend this little volume...