Word: account
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...said that the German students are not successful as oarsmen, on account of their inability to abstain from the use of tobacco and beer...
...third and final competition in the current series of shotgun matches, will be shot this afternoon at Watertown. Any postponement on account of weather will be made known by a notice on the university bulletin board...
...seem to have overlooked one fact which has hitherto received attention. We refer to the practice of writing commencement parts, which seniors are requested to follow. In former years a commencement part could be substituted for part of the forensic work of the senior year. At present, however, no account is taken of commencement parts, and no allowance made directly for those who wrote them. It is true that a writer of a part could probably get Mr. Briggs to recommend his subject to Dr. Royce, who, in turn, would probably allow the substitution of this part for the long...
...about $529, 000.00 of this was for buildings, the money having been given for that purpose. The decrease in the total invested property inclusive of the $52,900 spent on buildings, was $78,396.11. This was much more than counterbalanced by the numerous gifts made to increase the capital account, which aggregated $258,438.90, leaving a balance or net increase in the invested property...
...only invited to attend it on condition that they witness several sparring encounters, together with the other games which they come to see. Should the Tech. arrangement of putting all the sparring at the close of the meeting, any timid ladies would not have to stay away on account of blood. True, the variety of the programme would be somewhat marred by this change, and so would the opportunities for very long rests between the bouts. But with plenty of entries in the two events, light-weight and feather-weight sparring, the time between bouts would be sufficient...