Word: fours
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...hundred and sixty-nine victories. From carelessness or some other cause, only ninety balls remain to attest these victories. Permission has been obtained to put a case in the auditor's room, Memorial Hall. The present case in Massachusetts is too small to contain the fifty-four balls we have won the past two years, and those already in it, - about forty in all. This fact, and the requirement that the case shall be made of chestnut to match the wood-trimmings in the hall, make it necessary to order a new one. A case nine feet long, six feet...
...this last amount is raised by subscription in the four undergraduate classes, the nine will make up the extra amount for the plate glass. Only fifty cents in cash will be asked from each one who subscribes; and if each class gives at least $50, the inscription will be: H. U. B. B. C. Ex dono '78, '79, '80, '81. - 1878. If the subscriptions of any class fall below $50, its name will be omitted from the inscription, and no class will need to complain that it was not thoroughly canvassed...
BULLETIN No. 5 is now ready at the Library. This is the first bulletin of the year, and subscriptions are now payable. The price is the same as last year. - twenty-five cents for four bulletins...
...late Dr. Martyn Paine has bequeathed the bulk of his property to Harvard College. It is not to be used until the income shall amount to $8,000. It is to be employed as follows: $4,800 will be divided among sixteen scholarships, four in each class, to be known as Robert Troup Paine Scholarships. $1,500 to be devoted to prizes for essays on various subjects, and the remainder ($1,700) is to go to the Library, - $800 to be spent in buying books and $900 to be set aside as an accumulating fund...
...reference cards should all have the alcove and shelf marks of the books. It is a little hard to be referred to two or three different cards for the want of four or five figures in the margin of the first...