Word: amounts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...fairly positive that at this season of the year when the sun is hidden so much we would not find the "inexpensive sunlight" satisfactory to rise by or even take notes by at the hour of eight. As for actual earlier retiring, there still remains the same amount of study and after all, the time of retiring is dependent on habit developed through years and changed, if ever, only with extreme difficulty...
...effect of the war is certain to be of interest to all alumni of the Institute of Technology and to young men who are willing to do an extra amount of work in order to get through their course the sooner. In brief, the demand for technical men is so great that the Institute is planning not only to run all summer for the upper classes, but to take in a brand new freshman class in February made up of "picked men, gluttons for punishment," as one of the officials puts it, who, by October, will have completed their regular...
This evening the Student Council will meet to discuss the question of setting the daily schedule of the University back one hour in order that a corresponding amount of coal energy in the form of electric lights may be saved at the end of the day. The proposition is to secure the effects of turning back the hands of the University clocks without actually disturbing any of those venerable chronometers. If the Council approves of the measure, it will be brought before the Faculty, who will in all probability give it their support...
During the year of 1917, the University has received by gift $2,271,900, according to a report recently published. This sum was in addition to the annual payment from the trustees under the will of Gordon McKay, but included the amount of $432,900, which was a part of the Endowment Fund of $10.000,000 to be raised for the University by the Alumni. This Endowment Fund campaign was postponed last spring and will not be resumed until after the close...
...there is a sufficient number of applicants, work will begin February 1, the beginning of the second term, and will continue for 15 weeks, coming to a close before the final examinations are started. The amount of work to be required is 28 hours a week. Twenty-four of these will be spent in classroom lectures and laboratory exercises, and the remaining four in signaling work. Professor E. L. Chafee at the Cruft Laboratory will consult with prospective applicants. The step toward the organization of this course was taken upon the request of Major-General Squire...