Word: amounting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lack of efficiency on the part of the younger, less responsible members of the Library staff, the same criticism cannot be applied to Widener's workers as a whole. In the Library, like in a good many other places, a customer is apt to receive an ascending amount of attention and interest the higher he seeks it, and Mr. Lane's letter is but another proof that those in charge of Widener are willing to go out of their way in helping the members of the University...
...most common method of presenting material in government to undergraduates is by lectures and text-books. This plan has decided advantages. It is the most effective and economical system for presenting basic facts, principles, and descriptive material to large classes. It also makes possible the covering of a large amount of ground in the minimum of time. For many institutions without research bureaus or special libraries containing a wide variety of source-material it is the only practical plan. The lecture text-book method, however, if used exclusively in government has certain advantages, especially for advanced students...
...retires, having been in office for approximately five years, he will have saved two hundred and fifty thousand dollars from his salary. The annual income of the chief executive is seventy-five thousand dollars; those who know the president claim that he does not spend one-third of this amount. A little simple mathematics reveals the fact that "Economy Cal will-carry back to Vermont about a quarter of a million dollars...
...Most of the fund, the amount of which has been caustically exaggerated, was derived from the sale of certain newspaper properties,?? in which almost all of it was invested. The fact that those papers should have prospered naturally excited the envy of journals which were flounder- ing helplessly...
...Budget as drawn up by the Student Council calls for the disbursement of the $12,000 pledged. Of this amount $5000 was collected during registration at the opening of College. The rest of the total was represented by promises of the students to pay their pledges before December 1. Returns have been very slow and unless the speed with which they are reaching the committee increases markedly, both the Student Council and the other organizations supported by the fund will be forced to carry on their activities under financial embarrassment...