Word: bursars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...registration, the memory of which is gradually fading like a bad dream, the voices of a few were heard protesting feebly against the necessity of filling a bond with the University. The protest was negligible beside the wholesale acceptance and approval of the majority of undergraduates who found the bursar's card transforming them into modern Aladdins by the mere signing of their names...
...term bills of students at Harvard College in Cambridge were for years met by the payment to the bursar of produce, live-stock, meat and occasionally "with various articles raked from the closets of undergraduate debtors." One man, later president of the college, settled his bill with an old cow, -- whose merits and value proved cause for a spirited dispute. The accounts of the fund for the first college building include the entry: "Received a goat, 30s, plantation of Watertown rate, which died...
Unfortunately, club life saps much of the Union's life blood. Unfortunately again, the Union is not too favorably located: we have to walk over a lofty hill to reach it. Once there we must first show a Bursar's card and then a pink, or green, or purple ticket, and finally look sweetly on an inwardly kind, but outwardly fierce mouthed Cerberus at the door. This is not Service or even Friendship, but what are all these travails of the soul--they are but necessary red tape routine of a season just commencing--compared to the fact that once...
There will be a fee of $3.00 for each examination, to be paid at the Bursar's office. The examinations will be three hours in length...
There will be a fee of $3.00 for each examination, to be paid at the Bursar's office. The examinations will be three hours in length...