Word: amount
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...thousand dollars each, and one thousand dollars to the city hospital at Worcester; to the American Unitarian Association, five thousand dollars. Five thousand dollars is given to the Harvard Divinity School, and a piece of real estate worth twenty thousand dollars is given to Harvard College. The total amount which Harvard will receive from this will, has been estimated to be at least one hundred thousand dollars. It was Mr. Conant's wish that a building bearing his name be erected with the money if the amount should prove to be sufficient...
...Thames, met yesterday afternoon to consider the propositions of the crews submitted after the meeting of the representatives in this city on Sunday. The committee was favorably impressed with the fairness of the demands, which have reference chiefly to what the railroads should do in return for the amount of traffic the college events furnish them. The Board of Trade committee is, of course, in no position to make contracts involving an expenditure of money-in fact, all it can do under the circumstances is to invite a future meeting of representatives from the railroads...
...amount spent in extras at Memorial for December and January...
...same class with Dr. O. W. Holmes and Professor Benjamin Peirce, father of Professor B. O. Peirce. He was one of the oldest members of the Worcester bar, and was universally honored and esteemed by all who knew him. It is not known now what the amount of his estate is, or what the other provisions of the will are, so nothing is known of the amount which the college will receive. It is not known either whether the money is given for a stipulated purpose or to the general fund without restrictions...
Such efforts as these we have spoken of, directed with such wise precision, are doing much to change for the better popular estimation of our college. Great institutions like Harvard must always expect to be misrepresented; but we can do an infinite amount of counteracting good for our college by showing to those who have so misjudged us the truth...