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...past thirty years have been a time of evolution in the functions as well as of increase in the size of the Bursar's Office. At the beginning the Bursar was responsible for supervision or for the actual execution of most of the activities in Cambridge departments which were outside the normal functions of the teachers. The library, some of the laboratories, the museums, the Botanic Garden and the Observatory were under the charge of the appropriate officers, but with these exceptions the Bursar's authority directly or otherwise covered mechanics, engineers and firemen, laborers and janitors. The Bursar assigned...
...Every student in Harvard College and in the Engineering School who at the beginning or the end of the Christmas Recess fails to register at the time set for that purpose, may be required to pay to the Bursar a fee of $5 before being permitted to register. Payment of this fee does not preclude action by the Administrative Board in the cases of students who register late...
Since June 13, 1888, Mr. Mason has served as Bursar, the chief financial officer of the University with whom students come in contact. In addition to receiving tuition fees, bonds, and term bills, this officer pays all of the operating expenses of the University. Yearly the work has increased, for the annual operating expenses of the University have mounted from about $600,000, when Mr. Mason took office, to over $5,000,000 at the present time...
...students to pay something of what they owe, and even some to pay all that they owe; but there is only one man who, during the last thirty-four years, has induced all of his debtors to pay all of their debts. That man is Charles F. Mason, Bursar of the University. Now comes his resignation after a long period of service during which his name has been impressed upon many generations of Harvard men. To us he, like the poor has appeared to be always with...
...line at the office on the Delta have had the privilege of speaking to him personally. Some few there are, however, who--getting the worst of a dispute with one of the clerks have stood upon their rights and appealed to Caesar. And these have invariably found the Bursar to be a very different person from what they had imagined, and discovered that the man who was spending five millions a year for the University was not without consideration for their smaller problems. So courteous was the treatment they received, that all wrath against the college administration was completely effaced...