Word: amounts
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...again seems necessary to call the attention of the members of '98 to their subscriptions to the Class Fund. Very few subscriptions indeed were received last week and the average subscription to date forces us to believe that the Fund will fall far below the required amount. From the entire class of over four hundred men, only eight-four have subscribed at all. Unless the members of the class respond more heartily to the appeal, '98 will have the smallest fund subscribed in recent years and consequently the class will not receive as great benefit from the fund as could...
...objections the Corporation had previously offered to any such a plan were, "that it was not desirable that a complete scheme for the future development of the College property should be formulated, as no sufficient knowledge could be had as to the amount of future bequests or the conditions on which money might be given, and that if adjoining lands were included in the scheme the difficulties of purchase would be increased." They had further stated, "that plans were in preparation showing the sites of existing buildings and containing some suggestions for open areas and future sites which had heretofore...
Further, "that the amount of future gifts or the conditions of the bequests is not known, does not seem a valid reason for avoiding the study of possibilities. It is known that there will be bequests, and it is plain that a donor would rather have his building well placed than ill placed. It is also possible that if buildings continue to be placed as now, persons may not want to build at all at Cambridge. Hence the desire to have the main lines upon which blocks of buildings may be set fixed once and for all. No stronger argument...
...Corporation have affirmed that it was not desirable that a complete scheme for the future development of the college property should be formulated, as no sufficient knowledge could be had as to the amount of future bequests or the conditions on which money might be given, and that if adjoining lands were included in the scheme the difficulties of purchase would be increased. Further they did not think it expedient to have a standing advisory committee, as artistic questions can rarely be separated from questions of cost, of utility, and of express or implied obligations to benefactors...
...rowing season is at present too little advanced for any amount of activity at the Weld Boat Club. The regular Weld crews will not be formed until after the class crews have been reduced to their final make-up. From time to time those men who are dropped from the class squads will be given an opportunity to try for their respective Weld eights...