Word: amounts
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Since September last the bills of the Yale navy, to the amount of two thousand dollars, have been paid up, so that the race with Harvard can take place shortly after Commencement...
...first place, it seems to some of the officers of the clubs that the present system is not a success, and that no amount of energy on their part can keep it going; the original contract with Blakey provides that each of the four clubs shall contain fifty-five members, all paid up, at the rate of fifteen dollars per annum. This has by no means been the case at any time since the starting of the system. The boat-house and boats have not proved to be attractive enough to induce many to make use of them except just...
...that they will not - I must beg of you to politely decline them. They can't help you, and they may hurt you; for membership involves a habit of constant prevarication, which is anything but salutary in its effects. At the same time these secret organizations have a certain amount of power; and as long as they do not interfere with you, you had better not interfere with them, - technical interference being the public mention of their existence. If they openly offend you, of course you must not calmly submit; but my experience of them is that they...
...well as of Sophomores and Juniors is one which we sincerely hope will not be acted on. In order to eradicate the more obvious faults such as it is possible to attend to in exercises on which the instructor can bestow as little time as on college themes, the amount of work now required is sufficient. If the instructor could consider each theme carefully, and afterwards criticise it in connection with the writer, the case would be different, since then the field for correction would be practically unlimited. As it is, twelve themes can accomplish the purpose as well...
...University should be assigned to two of the most largely attended courses in College is a question that three times a week presents itself to those who elect Latin 8 or Latin 9. Where fifty men are packed into a room of the size of U. 24, the amount of fresh air left at the end of ten minutes for each man to breathe is barely sufficient to support life, and under such trying circumstances even Tacitus grows commonplace and Plautus prosy. The substitution of a room as large as U. 16 would be hailed with rejoicing...