Word: moneys
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...hall. Accordingly plans were drawn and a site selected. The new hall was to be a frame structure, and to accommodate over nine hundred men. It would probably have been put on Holyoke Street, opposite the Hasty Pudding building. The Corporation would have to advance the money for this building, and it stands ready to do so, though it feels that a more determined effort should be made to supply the increased demand with the present accommodations. President Eliot, especially, felt that the Dining Association should at least test the hotel system at Memorial by an experiment...
...freshman crew is brought out again very plainly by Mr. Hooper, the graduate treasurer, in his letter to the manager of the freshman crew. According to his statement, the sum must absolutely be raised before the crew can leave Cambridge. It ought not to be hard to raise the money. As a matter of fact the class has given much less than its predecessors. Now is the time for the men to show that they possess a more generous spirit than the one which will allow the class and college to be disgraced for niggardly giving. We cannot believe that...
Judging from the action taken last year I feel safe in saying that the athletic committee will not allow the freshman crew to go to New London unless it has sufficient money to meet its expenses while there. This will call for about one thousand dollars. To meet this you now have less than one hundred dollars in cash. Of the surplus turned over to me by your football team you are entitled to five hundred dollars, so that it will be necessary for you to raise at least five hundred dollars between now and the time your crew wishes...
...before it, and to do its duty speedily. Look at this, Ninety-four! Within one week from today your crew must be at New London. Twelve hundred dollars must be raised to send it to New London. The conclusion is that the freshman class must raise this sum of money within the week. We say 'must': it is utterly out of the question of choice. Fancy Harvard's forfeiting an important race because of no money! The class responsible for such a record would go down as the worst that ever tried to represent Harvard...
...prospect of future success was not bright. At this juncture several Harvard men came forward, noticeably G. S. Mandell '89, then captain of the Mott Haven team, and R. S. Hale '91, one of the formers of the original association. and reorganized the association on a larger scale. Money was raised for a cup, the association was made really representative of the New England schools, and in the spring of 1889 the first meeting of the new association took place on Holmes Field. This meeting was great success in every way, and was won by Worcester Academy, with Roxbury Latin...