Word: amounts
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...their pupils harder. Hour examinations and theses have never been imposed in such numbers as this year. Apart from these considerations, the advance of the College in other ways should be marked by an abandonment of the old high-school notion that the shorter the vacations the larger the amount of knowledge gained, and by a recognition of the principle that by vacations of a suitable length the minds of all members of the College are so invigorated that the work done is better than it otherwise would be. While gratified by the present extension, then, we trust...
...expense would be large, it would be worth incurring; but we have ascertained that it would be comparatively small. The cost of heating the theatre from the middle of this month up to the middle of April would be about one hundred and sixty dollars, and if the amount which would be paid in any case for heating it for evening entertainments be deducted, the net cost would be less than one hundred dollars. We cannot believe that even Harvard College is so poor that it cannot afford to devote this sum to keeping up the interest of one hundred...
...other hand, the Union would do away with a number of the small societies, which are now becoming so numerous. While laudable enough in themselves, they necessitate a division of energies, and take up an amount of time that in no way compensates for the advantages afforded by one strong association. Men interested in various subjects might, as now, meet at certain times, but always as members of the Union (in a room corresponding to the English debating-room, for instance), without all the machinery of officers, and without the expenditure of time and money which the separate organizations...
...amount of extra work required by instructors in some of the elective courses has become something to which the attention of the Faculty should be at once directed. In the elective pamphlet we are informed that the recitations in a certain course occupy three hours a week, and upon inquiry, we discover that the basis of the Faculty's calculations is that two hours are to be spent in the preparation of each recitation. In fact, however, it is far otherwise. Some instructors, under the mistaken idea that their particular course is the only thing worth paying any attention...
...College is to be congratulated on the legacy which has been left to it in the will of Mr. Walter Hastings of Boston. As far as we can ascertain the facts they are as follows: The whole of the property left by Mr. Hastings amounts to about $800,000; his wife and daughter are to receive during their lifetime $15,000 a year between them, or the income of $300,000. The other $500,000 are to accumulate, and on the death of the two ladies will go, with the remaining $300,000, to Harvard College. The money is left...