Word: counts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...principal need for the future is an adequate endowment fund. Under the present status the librarian must count upon generous friends of the University for the annual income. Due to the varying amounts of the gifts, it is impossible for the librarian to estimate his budget accurately for the ensuing year...
...collected $120.50, the largest individual amount handed in J. W. Geary '20 was credited with the second largest collection of $118, and R. Saltonstall '20 was third with $117. In accordance with the rule followed by 1919 the amount each collector gave himself to the fund did not count in his totals, the actual collections alone being considered. Only $1,400 was secured last year by 1919 and the 1920 totals are the largest on record. The average amount turned in by each member of the committee was over $75. The money collected will form the class treasury and will...
...Perhaps the most striking fact," says Mr. Weber, "in all these years of composition has been the docility of the students. Is the arrogance of youth' a meaningless phrase? I can count on my fingers the students who have rebelled against my criticisms. . . . . I wonder whether the same conditions prevail at Harvard or at Bryn Mawr? I know they do not in athletics...
...present instance I hope and believe that it is going to make itself felt in favor of war." Is this the sort of "political doctrine" which Columbia is about to "investigate," or does it confine its investigations purely to anti-war speeches? A short while ago Count Tolstoi, the son of the world famous author, was prevented by President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia from delivering a speech in the precincts of that university which the censor at Moscow had seen fit to pass as harmless, even for Russia! Is that doctrine of of- fering public insult to a leading...
...psychological subjects which the late Professor Hugo Muensterberg had built up during his lifetime was presented to the University yesterday through C. H. Reisinger '12. Mr. Reisinger represented a committee of friends of Professor Muensterberg. The donors comprised Felix M. Warburg, Mrs. Hugo Reisinger, Jacob H. Schiff, Rudolph Erbsloeh, Count von Bernstorff, Adolph Pavenstedt, Karl Neumond, George Ehret, Jr., Rudolph Pagenstecher, Herman A. Metz, Fritz Achelis, August Hecksher; Henry Goldman, Mrs. Samuel Untermeyer, Jacob Hasslacher, E. D. Adams, Anton Eilers, of New York City; August A. Busch and E. A. Faust, of St. Louis, Mo.; Fritz von Frantzius and Harry...