Word: amount
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three thousand money seekers, passing the plate to 21,000 alumni last week finished Yale's drive for $20,000,000 endowment. When the drive ended with December's end the amount was oversubscribed-just how much no one knew, as late subscriptions swept in by letter and cable...
...plant of the Van Dyke Company, and despite repeated efforts of the Editors to secure accurate information of the damage suffered by the volumes, it is believed from the meagre news obtainable that they were destroyed by the falling wall of the ruined building. When the exact amount of the damage is learned today, the Student Council and the Editors of the Register will probably decide their future course as to the publication of the book...
...more vital position in the life of the institution and of the undergraduate. With its greater responsibility and influence it needs a distinctive type of man, a man with a trained systematic mind capable of embracing and understanding every phase of faculty and student interest and activity, a certain amount of initiative, scholastic ability, and the pessimism which comes only after a long attempt to please the public. Such men might be born, but in the newspapers field they are more often made. And if the university dailies are to have the best possible editors, it is incumbent...
...pledged on the subscription blanks given out on registration day, $5000 was collected at that time. Further payments were made when the first set of bills were sent out, but only to a degree very discouraging to the Council. The full amount originally pledged has been allotted to the classes, charities, and other bodies supported from the fund, and no reduction will be possible without seriously handicapping their work...
...house was sold out on the first evening when an enthusiastic public surpassed all former audiences in the amount of applause, at Town Hall in New York City. Proceeding to Troy the next day the men were received at a tea dance at the Country Club, whence they returned to the city proper to give an evening concert before another eager audience. The majority of the club passed the weekend as guests of the University of Toronto where nothing was left undone for the comfort and pleasure of the visitors. On Tuesday evening an audience, notable among which were...