Word: amounting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...supported by this body in its efforts to place Memorial Hall on its proper footing in the University, and this should restore the confidence which has been shaken by the gradual rise in the price of general board. With the assurance that the price will not exceed a fixed amount, the uncertainty which has driven many members away will cease, and a growing and well-satisfied membership will probably result in a further reduction--one which would never have been possible under the unsettled conditions which have existed recently...
Attention is called to the three silver cups offered by W. Minot '07 for "general merit." By this is meant regularity of attendance, amount of improvement, diligence and general attitude towards the work. The winners of the caps are to be picked one each from the pole-vault or high-jump, shot-put or hammer-throw, and from the hurdle events...
...awakening of the public conscience and its recognition of the duty of the community to its poorest and weakest members." The awakening has commenced, it is domesticating a conscience in public life, but one that is still a crude ill-educated groping thing. It will stand a vast amount of abuse, of ridicule, of intolerance, but when to these is added insolence, and the public sense of decency is violated by official exploitation of criminal license, it becomes an avalanche and temporarily overwhelms its oppressors. Like an avalanche, however, it possesses no constructive power and when the old forces that...
...activity which attracts so much attention in the outside press and is of such value to the participants, debating does not receive a proportionate amount of recognition within the University. How many men who intend to take up law are willing to try for even one team while they are in College? The preparation and delivery of a debate--especially the speeches in rebuttal--will be of great advantage to a lawyer, and less obviously to any man whose vocation demands quick and logical thinking...
...quarters are entirely filled and any more gifts that may be received must be declined for lack of room or stored until larger accommodations can be secured. Plans have been drawn for a new building, which, with a fund for its proper endowment, will cost about $300,000. The amount which is now on hand is not sufficient to warrant even the beginning of a building, and until further subscriptions are received, the movement for a new building will be at a standstill...