Word: amounting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There have been exceptional years in the past, the most recent being 1924, when a graduate gave a considerable number of rare works of English literature for which he is known to have paid considerably over $100,000, so that the year's total was double the normal amount...
This current year, 1928-29, will again double, not merely the normal but the previous best, for the amount paid out for books will exceed $480,000. Needless to say, nearly all of this comes from exceptionally large gifts from loyal friends of Harvard. This impressive amount needs to be considered, however, in connection with another that is equally impressive, which was announced by President Lowell a year ago in June, 1928, Harvard received from the family of William Augustus White, '63, a collection of the early editions of Shakespeare's plays, which were appraised at $435,000. In other...
...make a suggestion as to a plan for life subscriptions? Why not sell your subscribers Subscription Bonds?" The amount of seventy dollars, named in the sample bond enclosed, is fixed on the supposition that the money invested with you can be made to pay 5% with safety, and that you can afford to make a subscription price of $3.50 to these subscribers. The rate of interest on the bonds, and the subscription price to them, would have to be determined and the amount of the bond fixed in accordance with the facts...
...land not otherwise purchaseable. Thus the scrip was scattered over the U. S., gradually finding its way back to the General Land Office to be redeemed. Even today the General Land Office does not know exactly how much unredeemed Valentine scrip is still in circulation, though the amount is supposed to be small...
...concentrating in Biology, for example, is dragged down on one side by a staggering amount of laboratory work, on the other side by a reading period in which no respite from laboratory is allowed, and further by tutorial work and divisionals. With the latter two little fault can be found, for the divisional examinations in Biology are being given for the first time this year, and the tutorial system is as effective as it can ever be until a replacement of "doctor's office" conferences by direct individual laboratory contact can be effected...