Word: amount
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...well attended. After a few introductory remarks the speaker gave a short history of railroad signalling and then proceeded to illustrate the modern methods of signalling. The immense strides which have recently been made in this work are mostly due to the application of electricity. If an equal amount of progress can be made in the next few years, a railway accident will practically become an impossibility...
...correct. The expenses necessary to the new hall over and above those at Memorial are only about one thousand dollars a year. Even supposing that at the start there were but three hundred boarders in the hall, the increase in price to each one would on this score amount to less than ten cents a week. This difficulty is only a fancied...
...small establishment must be greater than in a large establishment and, because, in the second place, an allowance must be made for profit. The two causes combined make the increase in price a very considerable item. Now to the student who must live on a comparatively small amount of money-and the number of such who come to Harvard is very large-the cost of board is the most important variable in expenses. The increased price of board would have one of two effects. Either such students must content themselves with poorer board and the inevitable reaction on health...
...declining to look upon all sides of the Memorial Hall question. Students ought to be willing to recognize the reasons for the Corporation's attitude, and the Corporation ought to be willing to do the same by the students. Cooperation is necessary, and cooperation, underlaid with misunderstandings, will amount to nothing...
...practice yesterday was sharp and with a fair amount of snap. In the game with Brown tomorrow the nine will probably have the above make...