Word: amounting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...fund and a prompt payment of the first instalment on the sums already pledged. The class of 1908 has less than a month left of undergraduate life and only 248 men have made any response to the Treasurer's original request for subscriptions. Considerably less than half of the amount due has been paid in, and the total amount subscribed so far, $10,795, is much below the average. The report of the 1907 class Treasurer shows a total available fund of $15,039 received from 408 subscribers. It is plain that if 1908 is going to come...
...Class Fund is growing slowly. We have to date, $10,795 pledged. This amount comes from 248 cards returned to the treasurer. Of this, only $978 has been paid in, whereas there should have been...
Having selected a method, the matter of rules for governing is comes up. In my opinion the competition should be in sole charge of the manager of the team in question. The amount of money collected by a candidate should be taken into consideration only as showing the candidate's ability and his desire to work. The actual choice can be made only through the manager's impression of the candidate's ability and general fitness gained by observation of his work and the results obtained. A manager is naturally influenced by the opinion of the captain and the members...
Certainly if a competition is to be held at all, its terms must be strictly adhered to. When the amount of money collected is made a factor, this is frequently impossible, both because of the inequality of conditions under which the candidates work, and because a good collector is frequently a most unacceptable sort of a manager. As a result unfounded rumors of favoritism have been freely circulated, and the outcome has been unfair to managers and competitors, and a downright injury to the College...
...committee's duty, therefore, to work rapidly and quietly, and to place no delay on the formation of a working athletic program for the future. But it has a larger function, in the fulfillment of which it may do an enormous amount of good...