Word: debt
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...shipping Boylston to Russia it is to be painted red, white, and blue, and put up at the World's Fair, in which General Grant is to receive his callers and presents. The latest despatch comes from New York, saying that O'Beery has offered to give away a debt of $2,000, incurred at the last walking-match, to any man who can smooth off the blocks of Boylston in 365 consecutive days. Two men have entered, the Chinese professor and Connors. As there are 1,365 blocks altogether in Boylston, and as two men can clip...
...Princeton Football Association has undertaken the debt of the Boating Association...
...general excellence, should call out many new gymnasts; while the combination on the last day, of Dr. Sargent's Exhibition with the regular meeting of the Association, ought seemingly to be a great success. The change in price was a step that (with no prospect of raising the debt of the Association, unless some such move was taken) cannot fail to meet the approval of every one who looks at it fairly. The provision for having reserved seats in the gallery, by which the confusion and crowding of last year will be largely obviated, is also commendable. To conclude...
...price of board per week for November in Memorial Hall has been $4.29. The following is an analysis of that amount: provisions, $2.95; service, 68 1/2; coal, .10; water, .01; gas, .08; breakage, .04; interest, .12; reduction of debt, .06; summer repairs, .06 1/2; allowances for Sunday absence, .09; miscellaneous, .02; head money...
...augmented; and, as our contributor points out, the Freshman Class might transfer the bulk of their subscriptions from their class crew to the 'Varsity, if they rowed no intercollegiate race. At any rate, whatever the advantages in Freshman races as regards rowing are, the disadvantages of leaving a large debt reflect immediately on the College at large, and do much to injure its credit among strangers...