Word: account
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...board at Harvard paid and give him a cash bonus besides. He even went so far as to tell Ammerman that there was a ticket to Boston waiting for him at the Pennsylvania railroad station. Ammerman refused his offer and said he went to Pennsylvania on his own account and would go to no institution on other terms...
...whom the treat was rarest were Harvard graduates who found it both pleasant and profitable to renew their associations with their Alma Mater, if but for a single evening. They are thereby entitled to recognition, if the Glee club are not; and it is as much on their account as on the account of the Glee club itself that we believe the action of the faculty a mistake. It seems a little like an untimely exercise of preparatory school discipline. The permission granted to give a concert in New York goes very little towards establishing the committee's wisdom...
...commoner books, but it makes up for this in the rarity of others. The most valuable collection of rare books ever given to library is that of Charles Sumner, who left all his books, in themselves a library, to the college. Many of his books are of interest on account of their former owners, two or three having belonged to Louis XIV, one to Milton, and one to Samuel Johnson, besides Bunyan's Bible and Lord Byron's poems of Ossian. Others are interesting on account of their editions several belonging to the original editions of the fifteenth century. Among...
...Johnston's work. Professor A. L. Frothingham, jr., has contributed three admirable articles on art topics the "Introduction of Architecture into Italy," "An early Christian Rock-cut church at Sutri," and "An Architectural Tour in Central Italy." "The Cruise of the Grampus" by Professor William Libbey, jr., is an account of the investigations made last summer by a party sent by Princeton to observe the temperature and specific gravity of the ocean at different depths...
...atmospheric ink-stand patented a few years ago has had but a limited sale on account of its expense: its advantages have been obvious from the start. Recently the makers have reduced the regular price and the Society bought largely to secure the maximum discount...