Word: bursars
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...purpose of identification, and to prevent the intrusion of unauthorized persons, it is ordered that all students of the University shall, upon their first visit to the Gymnasium, exhibit to the Superintendent the Bursar's certificate...
...else were obliged to room outside. This converted the allotment of rooms into a mere opportunity for speculation among the students, for which no capital was required, and of which the profits were often large. A change from such a system is what most undergraduates desire, and the Bursar has succeeded in wording his circular in such a manner that probably no loopholes can be found for the speculator to creep through, or by which he may continue his nefarious trade...
...room or not, and he cannot transfer the room to any one else, or allow any other student to occupy it. No transfers of rooms are allowed, except in case of exchanges, and rooms which are not wanted can only be disposed of by surrendering them at the Bursar's office. By means of the new regulations we may look forward to a more just division of vacant rooms this year. As the number of applicants will be considerably smaller than heretofore, the chances of those who desire to obtain rooms for their own occupancy will in consequence be greater...
...little need of such aid. What is needed is rooms for those who have lost their quarters. The best manner of supplying this need seems to be for the men who now room alone, and would be willing to take a chum, to leave their names with the Bursar, to whom the late occupants of Hollis should apply for other rooms...
...been decreased by a gift from Q. A. Shaw, Esq., of $1,000. It is to be wished that other gentlemen would follow his example, for the payments on the debt amounted last year to about $3,900. The change of the title of the College Steward to the "Bursar," which has been thought an affectation, was made in order to distinguish that officer from the steward of the Dining-Hall...