Word: amount
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...business than ever before. The member ship this year is 1681 as against 1492 last year and 1298 the year before. The receipts for this year cannot of course be given accurately till the books have been made up at the end of the year, but they will probably amount to about $113,000, an increase of $12,000 over the business of last year. It can be seen readily that a large part of these receipts comes from persons who are not members of the society, for, by dividing the total receipts from all sources by the number...
Will the man who left five dollars at 8 Holworthy yesterday morning between 9 o'clock and 10.45, without leaving any clue to his identity, please send his name to the treasurer at once that he may be credited with the amount...
...interesting cryptogamia. This has been arranged in part and proves attractive to all visitors. A few weeks ago a graduate of the University, who resides in one of our eastern cities, presented to the Botanical Department for present use, the very generous sum of ten thousand dollars. Of this amount, one quarter will be used by the Herbarium for the completion of its series of scientific publications, one quarter by the Botanic Garden, and the remaining half by the Botanical Museum in the completion of some of the cases which have been so much needed...
...past. A very light, "sandy" lot of men that do not row in anything like the form of a Harvard or Yale crew. These men are, therefore, not to be judged so much from the way they row as the speed they get out of their boat and the amount of endurance there is in the men. They started the year with but few candidates to pick from and very little coaching, but now they are at New London great improvement is looked...
Owing to the carelessness with which material of this kind is always furnished, we would not want to lay too much stress upon them, but all the facts together, even though not entire proof, are indication that the popular notion of the relative amount of money spent by Harvard and Yale students is incorrect. There is strong reason to surmise that the average expenditure at Yale is greater than that at Harvard...