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...Last fall the rates for play were materially lowered. The system of season and coupon tickets was introduced, and has proved a great convenience to both players and managers. The reduction of rates caused a lessening in receipts, which was offset by greater economy in the management of the tournaments. The debt originally incurred for making the courts, has been reduced by $150 and now amounts to $250. The following is a summary of the accounts for the year...
...tunnel to be drilled through solid rock, high enough to allow there lower masts of a ship to pass under. This trunnel would have been very expensive, and it was also found that the expense that would have to be increased in sending down the topmast of vessels would offset the advantage gained by the canal, so the scheme was a bandoned. The plan of a ship railway was declared by engineers impracticable for mechanical reasons and by seamen, on account of the strain imposed on a vessels hull by lifting it out of water. The Panama canal has proved...
...Football Association began the year with a surplus of $1181. They have now outstanding debts amounting to $3379. To offset this there is the sum of $244 in the bank, and $1351 due to the association; this includes $900 owed from the Princeton game, which Princeton has up to this time neglected to pay. The association has therefore a debt of at least...
...next spring is by no means rosy-hued, but the conditions under which the candidates will be able to work have never been better. In the first place we have a professional coach, and secondly, the nine will play some games with professional clubs. These advantages will tend to offset the loss of so many members of last year's team, and what with conscientious work on the part of those who are candidates for the nine and an energetic and unselfish devotion on the part of its captain the nine ought this year to be worthy of the confidence...
...student may need to spend largely but a certain circumstance enables him to do so,- I mean the matchless benevolence of those who have preceded us here. The great sums interested to us for distribution in prizes, loan funds and scholarships make it possible for our students to offset the cost of their education to such a degree that the not output of a poor boy is probably less than in most New England colleges. At any rate, I have asked a large number of poor students why they came to expensive Harvard, and again and again I have received...