Word: amounting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...desirable members of the committee. In the fall, it will be necessary for members of this committee to spend a week or ten days in collecting funds when the work will be difficult and exacting. Men engaged in athletics, or on publications, will hardly be able to give the amount of time which the work will require. The collection of the Budget will be made in such a way that the prominence of a name will have little advantage, while the diligence and industry of the individual will be more than vital...
...amount of the Budget seems a subject which the Student Council should decide for itself. It may vary from year to year; it is to be hoped that with the increasing stability of the Budget as a college institution, it may annually be increased to the full extent of the ability of the student body to contribute to such charities as the Student Council may see fit to support...
...investigated certain of the annual funds which are usually subscribed by the College. The Phillips Brooks House will expect $4,000 from the College, and we see no reason why this should not be guaranteed to it by the Student Council. The Class Funds will require a varying amount, subject to certain difficulties which will be explained below, which can roughly be estimated as $4,000 per annum. The Student Council itself should have the expenditure of certain funds in its own hands, for the expenses of delegates to intercollegiate conference and for such incidental expenses as may arise during...
...summaries of archaeological and paleontological activity that occasionally appear in your Science department entitled "Diggers" are fine?as far as they go. You report only an iota, however, of the vast amount of work that goes on in these extremely important fields constantly. How much better "Diggers" [TIME, April 25] would be, for instance, if you had told about Halvor H. Skavlem, a 78-year-old Wisconsinian who has devoted many years of his life to studying Indian relics and is the only white man who has ever discovered and imitated the lost Indian method of chipping flint arrowheads with...
...Alas kan lemmings* was in 1888; that, protected against unmitigated sunshine glaring on ice and snow only by crude wooden masks or slit leather straps, the endless days are nights for many snow-blind Eskimos, days of black sunlight; that the Eskimo appetite is prodigious, measurable only by the amount of food available; that thieving is unknown among them; that at their indoor social gatherings it is customary for one and all to sit stripped to the buff; that if land is ever discovered beyond Barrow, and utilized for an aero base, Manhattan may be within two days...