Word: perring
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Electric Light Committee has collected statistics which it presents in the following statement in regard to lighting the Senior dormitories. It has been estimated that the cost of wiring rooms separately would be about $35 per suite, but that if all co-operate in the plan as presented the figure can be reduced to about $20 as the report shows...
...cost of installation will be about $20 per individual suite. The charge for the use of the electricity itself will be at most $4 per man, the college being able to provide it at half price. There is no question as to the convenience of electricity, and little question, too, as to its preference over gas as far as ventilation goes...
Nominal Tax Per Capita...
...Harvard Mutual Foundation in the name of a trust which has been recently formed, and to which any persons, desiring to leave their money or property to the University, may now make their donations. The trustees will invest the funds so received, pay five per cent interest to the donor or his immediate heirs during their lifetime, and, at their death, turn over the principal to the University. The fund at present is about $250,000, with probability of an early increase. The new system will probably mean millions of dollars to the University...
...making a little over $6000 for the whole collection. The Sophomore class responded well to the exhortation of their class committee, and managed to get third place, the Juniors falling to last. The Freshman class is still well in the lead with a total of $2147, although only 25 per cent of the class have contributed. If the rest of the members keep up this average, 1916 ought to be able to stay in the lead. As only 2 per cent of the Senior class have made contributions since the last report, their total was not increased very much...