Word: moneys
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...reading-room, which is to be converted into a large stack, able to contain about 500,000 volumes. The new reading-room is to be connected with Gore Hall by means of archways, and is to contain about 30,000 reference works in wall book-cases. The amount of money needed would be about one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and although the president and fellows are quite unable to provide anything like the required sum, nevertheless, judging from precedent-money for the new medical school, for the museum for the botanical department, and the funds for the maintenance...
...become a well-established custom at Harvard to raise by general subscription large sums of money whenever they are required for the maintenance and welfare of some special department. So far this has been the case only with those departments whose workshop and laboratory is not the college library. Now it is the turn of those branches of learning-of philology, literature, philosophy, political economy, history, mathematics, and music-for the very existence of which the reading-room in Gore Hall is a necessity, to call upon Harvard's many and kind friends to come to the aid of their...
...MONEY MADE.- See advertisement of "Stocks" in next column...
...spirit of the age, as revealed by statistics, says that the present stages towards professional life are too circuitous and slow. Harvard has her choice of resisting this spirit on the ground that it is too practical, money-serving, and unprogressive, or of bowing to the necessities of the situation, lowering her standard for the first degree and then proving her devotion to learning by making her opportunities for advanced and graduate work richer and wider than they have ever been before. If she does the former college men will grow to be fewer and fewer in proportion...
...Harvard junior is supposed to be fully as well equipped as the average American bachelor of arts, and by conferring the degree of A. B. on the present juniors, Harvard would not bind herself to give the A. M. for anything less than her present requirements. If money is an object, there seems to be no valid reason why Harvard should not create a new freshman year below her present...