Word: money
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...connection with another that is equally impressive, which was announced by President Lowell a year ago in June, 1928, Harvard received from the family of William Augustus White, '63, a collection of the early editions of Shakespeare's plays, which were appraised at $435,000. In other words, the money value of the College Library has increased in the past twelve months more than a million dollars...
...Money values for such things as the books in the Harvard Library are most unsatisfactory even though they make a convenient measure for showing one aspect of its development. In this ease, such a measure has a certain justification, because it represents the lowest terms by which the real worth of the collection as a whole can be judged. It is a conservative estimate that every single volume added to the Library this year has increased the value of other books already there, by at least an equal amount, whether measured in money or by the tests of value...
...since the gift of Professor Charles Eliot Norton's library. One of these came from Mr. White's library, and two from that of the late Edmund Gosse. In this case gratification over these additions is tempered by the fact that it was not possible to find the necessary money to buy a fourth Donne title which came into the possession of a London bookseller during the year...
...Britain. This has long been recognized as one of the subjects which was inadequately represented at Cambridge, and the realization of this added to the deep disappointment a few years ago, when an opportunity to secure a very large Italian collection had to be declined because the necessary money could not be secured. This loss has now bee mitigated to some extent through the rapid growth of the Italian collection in the library, made possible by the establishment by Mrs. Nash of a substantial fund in memory of Professor Bennett Hubbard Nash...
...Wilson doesn't want a drink. If he spent a nickel for a schoonei of beer . . . he wasted his money. But I didn't waste mine...