Word: amount
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...year after year, so that students shall learn to expect and to await its different events. The more change there is, the less well-known will be the institution. Where interest is small, it must be concentrated: if diffused, it will not make itself felt at all. A certain amount of interest, quite sufficient to make Yale debates a success, would probably be much weakened if divided between Yale and Princeton debates. Princeton debates may come in time, but the needs of the present are for one chief rival and one only...
...ordinary man with anything but the strongest terms of denunciation. Such men, if there be such, are unworthy to have even an existence at Harvard. In the second place, it ought to be clearly recognized that any disorder on such an occasion would do Harvard an immense amount of harm. The audience will be a very cultured one, assembled out of admiration for the highest artistic talent of the stage, and the spirit of gentlemanliness will never be more called for. The occasion will be unique and delightful,- one whose memory will long remain with us. Not even the rashest...
...need of a board walk across Holmes Field. The number of men who must each day cross the field in order to practice in the Carey Building is large, and there is no good reason why proper accommodations should not be provided. The fact that only a slight amount of artificial flooding would make the field a pond is sufficient indication of its condition. The cost of the walk would be small and the convenience given would certainly be large...
...freshman musical organizations have begun the year under peculiarly favorable circumstances. The members possess a considerable amount of talent which, however, will require much practice and training before it can be brought into shape for the spring concerts...
...amount of paid subscriptions to the Frank Bolles Memorial fund is at present $589.07. The books which are in the hands of a committee of students have not as yet been called in for a report and the progress of the fund among the undergraduates is consequently uncertain as regards precise figures. That the students are giving generally is certain. The treasurer's book shows a sum of $46.00 subscribed but not yet paid...