Word: holders
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...seems that the fight originated in a desire of certain members of the Union to prevent the election of Mr. Mahany as President for the ensuing year. In order to gain their end they persuaded the present holder of the office to stand for another term. He consented. A canvas was instituted resulting in a large majority of the members of the Union pledging their support to Mr. Furber. On the eve of the election postal cards were sent to the adherents of the latter, calling upon them to remember their pledge and not to forget...
Johns Hopkins University bestows twenty fellowships per annum on graduates of that University, who propose to devote their life to special branches of science or literature. The holder of such a fellowship is exempt from tuition and receives $300 yearly...
...Undergraduate Tickets" from the University of Pennsylvania secure to the holder admission to a number of libraries, museums, and other places of similar character in Philadelphia...
...what do you know of their financial matters?" I answer at once: In some cases, nothing, in some a good deal; but this I do know in every case, that when a holder of a scholarship lives in a $300 room, and, compared to the average student, in real luxury, that man is either frightfully green and imprudent in his expenditures, or else he is frightfully dishonest in taking money he does not need...
...students of the Pennsylvania colleges have half-fare tickets on all railroads issued to them, wherever they travel. The President of the college issues blanks which are filled out, and which, when presented at any ticket-office, entitles the holder to hall-fare tickets. - The Dartmouth...