Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...awarding scholarships to each class separately, the average of scholarships being different in the various classes, men of equal ability and equally good records are treated differently. The one who happens to be in a dull class gets perhaps $200, while the other, whose class is superior, gets left. This was particularly noticeable in the last assignment; a man with 84 per cent. in the sophomore class got a Shattuck scholarship, while men with 87 per cent. in the junior class failed to get anything...
...than five lines, inserted in this column for 50 cents each insertion, or $2.00 a week. For over five lines, the rates are doubled. "Lost" and "Found" notices, if short, inserted once free; every additional insertion, 50 cents. All notices must be paid for in advance. They may be left at Leavitt & Peirces...
...Harvard Finance Club on the finances of the university. He began his remarks by calling attention to the fact that the accounts of the college are regularly published, although the law does not require this. Among other advantages, it tends to encourage large bequests to the college. Mr. Bussey left a certain amount of real estate to the college with the provision that it should never be sold. It amounts to about half a million of dollars. It is an advantage as a rule for a benefactor of the college not to prescribe any definite investment for his gift, since...
...gift to the university has ever been lost, although sometimes a gift has remained "buried" for a long time. It is unfortunate that donations made for immediate and temporary use do not leave behind them a perpetual memory. Mr. Henry Lee left the sum of $7,500 to the college to pay the salary of a Professor of Political Economy for five years. This was a useful gift, but it will out of recollections with the generation which enjoyed...
...than five lines, inserted in this column for 50 cents each insertion, or $2.00 a week. For over five lines, the rates are doubled. "Lost" and "Found" notices, if short, inserted once free; every additional insertion, 50 cents. All notices must be paid for in advance. They may be left at Leavitt & Peirces...