Word: amount
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Total amount of subscriptions paid...
...Total amount of subscriptions promised and unpaid...
...publish in another column a report from the treasurer of the Harvard Reading Room Fund to September 1, 1892. It will be seen from the account that so far only a little over twelve thousand has been paid, leaving subscriptions promised and unpaid to the amount of over nine thousand dollars. It is unfortunate that, while the need of this reading room is so great and the prospects are so good, there should be such a large amount of unpaid subscriptions. It is very easy for men to promise a subscription, but it is a lamentable fact that...
...largest amount received is from George Draper Esq., in the form of an unrestricted bequest of about $48,000, one-third the residue of his estate. Next to this comes the gift from the Elizabeth Fogg estate, of $10,374 additional, for building and maintaining the William Hayes Fogg Art Museum. Through Alexander Agassiz Esq., $5.000 has been received from Maj. Theodore K. Gibbs, to establish the Virginia Barret Gibbs scholarship fund in connection with the Museum of Comparative Zoology. From Mrs. Henry Draper of New York, $2,500 additional has been received for the account of the Draper Memorial...
...Tree an occasion for settling old scores, they should learn to choose some other place to do their fighting. The object of the tree exercises is to get the flowers, not to mutilate the next man, and the exercises ought always to be kept within gentemanly bounds. A certain amount of "scrapping" is, as the writer says, irreparable from such a struggle, but the affair must not degenerate into a free fight...