Word: money
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...January 20, 1914, the Class Executive Committee authorized the treasurer to deposit $500. of the class funds on time, 30 day's notice, with the Cambridge Trust Co., at 4 per cent. At the smoker held on May 15, 1914, the class voted that this money should not be withdrawn until the middle of the Senior year when the class expenses become high. By then interest amounting to $40. will have accumulated...
...rooms in the Savoy Hotel. Within the first few days of its organization, $10,000 was raised for purposes of immediate use, and soon after, a daily newspaper was started by the committee for the stranded Americans. During the first weeks of the war scare, when the scarcity of money was most stringent, many were in danger of being evicted from their hotels, because of the managers' refusals to accept letters of credit and travellers' checks. This state of affairs the committee relieved, by becoming directly responsible, and to make things further easier at the time when all English banks...
...athletic sports are highly organized in Harvard University, and are usually maintained without resort to contributions from undergraduates, the gate money taken at football and baseball games supporting all the major sports and all the minor sports. The variety of sports is great; so that the individual student has a wide choice, and a large majority of the students enlist in some sport or other...
...During the first hundred and seventy-four years of the existence of Harvard University, it was fostered by the Colony, Province, and State by contributions to the cost of buildings and small appropriations of money toward its annual expenses. Since 1810, however, Massachusetts has made no direct contributions to Harvard; so that the University has relied exclusively on students fees, the income of endowments derived from private persons, and gifts for immediate use. It appears from the experience of the last hundred years that these methods of support, combined with the privilege of exemption from taxation, can be trusted...
Morning prayers at this time were held at 6 o'clock and attendance upon them was enforced by requiring the payment of money for any delinquency. "If a student went to the place of public worship before the ringing of the second bell, he was fined not exceeding one shilling; if he was guilty of disorderly conduct immediately after or before prayers, or of irreverance during the service, he was fined a sum not exceeding five shillings, and if he walked on the common or the streets or fields of the town of Cambridge on the Lord...