Word: amounting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...established at the University in 1916, and greatly broadened last spring, seems not to have been entirely successful in bringing about the advantages at which it aims. One of its main purposes--to give the student more freedom in his studies and a chance to carry on a certain amount of individual investigation--has been entirely missed, because the faculty has failed to provide any time in which the extra work may be done...
Since the establishment of the system, practically no effort has been made to decrease the amount of required class work, the number of weekly tests, or routine labor. The work of individual investigation and reading with the tutor, which is the very aim of the system, has suffered, and has necessarily shrunk to an almost negligible amount...
...amount necessary for the expenses will probably reach $200,000, the largest sum ever spent by this country for the Olympic games. The increased size of the team will add to the expenses, and the committee in charge will no doubt raise the money by popular subscription...
...debt that is owed to the universities, and particularly to the teaching upon which every institution depends. Since 1905 there has been no increase in the salaries of the members of the Harvard Faculty. A man who has spent seven years in training receives only $1260 a year, an amount earned by the majority of day laborers. Now if over is the time to prove that "training the mind" is worth more to the community than "minding the train...
...Epstein's gift, by providing the money for loans to many of the more needy students, has removed the chief bar in the way of the change and has thus enabled the Law School to add to its income an amount equivalent to the income from an endowment of nearly $1,000,000. In his letter accompanying the gift Mr. Epstein wrote as follows of the Law School...