Word: amounts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enclosing my check for this year's subscription to the Harvard Fund, regretting exceedingly that it cannot be larger, but at any rate I want to be among the list of subscribers; and, insignificant though the amount is, I would like it credited to my class...
...Panama Canal. He has worked before with both the Mississippi River Commission and the U. S. Army. Awaiting confirmation by the Senate, all he would say about his new job was: "It is possible to control the river, entirely possible. It depends on spending the proper amount of money and on using the proper plans...
Tempest. The face of John Barrymore is, no doubt, a handsome one. His bare shoulders also have a certain attraction. Observers of Tempest are not allowed to forget these facts, which occupy an inexcusably large amount of the film's footage. So, it is no wonder that the reputedly "gripping" action drags. Mr. Barrymore is Sergeant Ivan Markov, of peasant birth, who attains a lieutenant's commission in the Russian army by hard work and through the influence of a kindly general (George Fawcett). Ivan worships the general's haughty daughter (Camilla Horn), but she treats...
Briefly these reasons may be described as, first a desire to bring all students in the College social life, and second: the necessity of maintaining a certain amount of College supervision over all the dwellings inhabited by students of the College. Whether or not it is desirable for undergraduates to live in definite proximity to other undergraduates is possibly a debatable question. It would be dangerous for a University which boasts the promotion of individuality as its salient care to assert that its members should form associations other wise than as they please. It can hardly, however, be denied that...
There was considerable attention given the meet in the press and it was almost entirely in a mood of skeptical humor. But, according to the report a great amount of undergraduate enthusiasm attended the unique battle, from Beowulf to Thomas Hardy in extent. And insofar as this interest holds, Mrs. Putnam's idea is psychologically sound. It only awaits the prestige which age will bring...