Word: amounts
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...subscriptions to the Class Fund amount to about $5,000, while the College Fund has only...
...have been raised to pay the rent on the boat-house. Most of this money has been used in paying last year's bills, and the crew will be all but pinched to get through both races. Subscriptions have been as large this year as last, but the amount netted from theatricals has been but half, - five hundred dollars...
...Amount paid sundry persons for labor and material...
...this, they have exerted themselves to make the societies as comfortable as possible somewhere else. Associations with old rooms they cannot transplant, but what can be done they agree to do. The only expense to which the societies will be put is the insurance upon the building, which may amount to two hundred dollars a year, but which, when divided among four clubs, will not be a burden...
...would not be perfectly fair. If one man has sufficient ability to learn as much Greek in one elective as another man does in two, why should he not be allowed the advantage which his natural capacity gives him? The test by which honors should be awarded is the amount of knowledge a man has of his subject, not the number of hours he has studied it. When we come to a realizing sense of this, we may hope to see as many men, in proportion, graduate here with honors as come out with distinction from the English universities...