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English A. Engineering 6d...
...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...
...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...
...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...