Word: pay
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...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...
...which have no tuition fees, as Lehigh University in Pennsylvania. Others have very small fees. At the Institute of Technology the charges are $200 per annum. At Harvard the tuition fee is universal, while at Tufts College not more than five per cent. of the students are required to pay it. When a scholarship has the effort of bringing to the college persons who would not otherwise come, the institution is the gainer by the amount of his tuition...
Poor old Harvard seems to be getting it on all sides just now to pay up for the good time she had during the 250th Anniversary. During that brief period of sweetness and light, enough good things were said about her and enough flattery was bestowed upon her to have turned the head of any less sensible old lady. But she only smoothed her dress a bit, put a new crimson ribbon on her cap, and blushed with modest pride...
...idea is good in spite of the danger. The richer the man the more he should pay in proportion to his wealth. One percent of of $10,000 is a much larger amount for a human being to pay in taxes than one percent...
...said president and fellows shall deem expedient to reduce the general expenses necessarily incurred by undergraduates of the college in pursuing the studies required to obtain the degree of bachelor of arts, who are not of themselves or with the aid of their parents of sufficient pecuniary ability to pay for the same. In the disposition of this part of said income, it is the intention of the testator to furnish aid to worthy young men who are not able to obtain the means of paying the ordinary cost of an education in the college without extraneous...