Word: dollars
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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PARK THEATRE. - Mrs. and Mr. Florence in "The Mighty Dollar...
LOST. - A dark brown Morocco Card Case containing two ten dollar bills and some cards. Please return to J. L. W., 735 Cambridge street...
...agreed to bestow cups on their nine, emblematic of the victories won against Yale last year. This decision was very natural and very laudable; but aut pecunia aut nil and names with dollar signs affixed to them in a miserable blue-book are not money. Whereas over $100 have been subscribed for, the management has as yet heard the clink of but $60. We trust that we need simply mention this fact without enforcing its significance and the remedies for it by mighty arguments. The course to be pursued is too axiomatic in its plainness to admit of demonstration...
...student on "Sept'br ye 23d 1777" well portrays some of the effects of the Revolution on his mind and on the college community at large. He complains bitterly of the rise of prices. After a very short "family" sentence he goes on to say: "Wood is but twenty dollars pr. cord, the corporation meet to-morrow to determine upon a vacation, it is supposed that we shall not have any fall vacation, but to include it in the winter, it is likewise supposed that we shall have a vacation to begin in December and continue through the winter...
...fifty dollar medal, offered by a member of '87 for a Harvard record of 6 minutes 50 seconds to be made in the spring, is an inducement to steady work. Saturday mornings, special work has been taken, and some fast miles have been walked. The pole vaulting has been remarkably good this year. A large number of men are candidates for this event...