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Word: 6d (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...found in a presentation copy of a recently published book on "Arithmetical Tables" which has been received at Cornell University from the firm of Ralfe Brothers, London. It says: "The dollar of the United States of America has four values in different places: In Georgia and South Carolina, 4s. 6d.; in New England and Virginia, 6s. 0d.; in Delaware, Md., New Jersey and Pennsylvania, 7s. 6d.; in New York and North Carolina...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/22/1887 | See Source »

...college. At Harvard there was a schedule of fifty-five offences punishable by penalties varying from two pence, for absence from prayers, to two pounds ten shillings, for absence from town for a month. If a man was absent from recitation, it cost him 1s. 6d.; if he got drunk, the penalty was no greater. Going to meeting before the ringing of the bell was an offence, and the over-prompt student was fined 6d. The penalty for playing cards was 5s. for graduates, 2s. 6d. for undergraduates. And so on down the list...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fines at Harvard. | 1/31/1885 | See Source »

...Harvard. The president or tutors could administer public whipping in the hall, and overseers were called in on special occasions to witness the proceedings. This form of punishment degenerated into ear-boxing in 1754, and then to a tariff of college sins, when profane swearing was valued at 2s. 6d.; sending for liquor, 6d.; and fetching the same 1s. 6d. The marking system was introduced...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLEGES IN THE COLONIAL TIMES. | 4/20/1883 | See Source »

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