Word: exceedingly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Nathaniel Thayer, one of the most munificent benefactors of Harvard College, died at his residence in Boston yesterday morning. His direct benefactions to the college, represented by buildings, endowments and permanent deposits, exceed $250,000, and include his expenditures on Thayer Hall, Thayer Commons Hall, Gray Herbarium, the Thayer expedition, etc. The gross...
...Williams chapel is held twice a day - morning and evening, except Wednesday and Saturday evenings, Sunday morning being regular church service. "If a student's unexcused absence from college prayers exceed ten in any one term he shall be admonished, or otherwise dealt with at the discretion of the faculty." "No excuse for absence from Sunday service shall be accepted, unless, when possible, rendered to a member of the faculty previous to the absence." Morning chapel is at 8.50 in the winter, at 7.50 in the summer. Evening chapel is at 5.30 in the winter, at 6 in the summer...
...making Sunday allowances for three and four meals. The petitions also show a somewhat general neglect or ignorance of the rules in regard to signing off. It was voted to make some necessary changes in the auditor's room, erecting a desk and railing. These improvements are not to exceed three hundred dollars. Messrs. Hubbard and Cushing were appointed a committee of supervision. After a pretty thorough and general discussion of the coffee question, the whole matter was left as at present, for another trial. The steward reported that the extra cost of coffee for dinner was about seven cents...
After brief reference to the Scientific School, the Dental School, the Botanic Garden, and the Bussey Institution, the report spoke of the striking activity of the chemical laboratory and the operations of the library. Whenever the expenses of the college threaten to exceed its receipts the corporation turns to the library as the best place in which to reduce expenses, because library work can be postponed, while teaching cannot. What the library greatly needs is funds amounting to at least $400,000, the income of which could be applied to the cost of administration and service...
...essays must not exceed in length the amount of twenty-five pages of the North American Review...