Word: moneys
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...track athletics and in gymnasium work, Andover suffers a great deal by the absence of a track and a suitable gymnasium. To overcome the obstacle the students and graduates are trying to raise the necessary sum of money...
...around the college. The cost of putting electric lights in the library would be comparatively slight-in fact, insignificant in comparison to what it would have cost three years ago. We have heard that the corporation do not wish to put electric lights in the library until they have money enough to light the yard and law school library at the same time. There is no reason why the lighting of the library should be made dependent upon outside circumstances for there is no immediate need of lighting the yard, and the law school library is lighted with...
...that threadbare subject of lights in the library. My only excuse is that of treating the question from a new point of view. It is, I believe, admitted beyond all doubt that the project of lighting the library by electricity is feasible. Two years ago, if I mistake not, money was subscribed, and we were just on the point of gaining our longed-for lights, when the authorities for some unknown reason gave up the idea and the money was returned. I think I am not wrong in these assertions, This being the case, the only step remaining...
Professor James said that Dr. Hodgson, the secretary of the society, would be away a great part of the time next year investigating cases of mediumistic phenomena in other cities, and that in order to continue the work of the society, considerable money would be needed, which he hoped would be forthcoming...
...electric lights into the library, because the matter has been already spoken of so often; and yet there seems to be no other way of bringing about this needed improvement except by continually harping upon it. We are assured from reliable sources that. provided the innovation were voted, the money for it would be forthcoming, a fact which simply proves that the conservative spirit common to all great institutions, and particularly powerful at Harvard, rather than a lack of funds seems to be the cause of our losing to some extent, the library privileges. The system of borrowing reserved books...