Word: poore
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...following nineteen men have handed in their names as candidates for the position of manager of the Freshman baseball team: J. Browne, S. Blaikie, D. W. Howes, S. L. Bullivant, C. L. Perkins, R. E. Streit, C. W. Whiting, R. B. Thomas, F. H. Poor, J. L. White, A. H. Schefer, G. S. Foster, H. Notman, N. C. Foot, A. Notman, R. A. Wood, C. H. Derby, S. Burton, Mac A. Moore...
More than forty active members are now engaged in the work of the St. Paul's Society. The principal mission work is the management of the "Emmanuel Club" for poor boys, which is conducted in the Emmanuel Mission House of the Church of the Ascension in Boston. The work is in charge of ten members of the society, who devote one evening a week to the amusement of about a hundred boys. The remaining nights of each week are devoted to lessons given by professional teachers, in carpentering, dancing, printing, cobbling and gymnastic training. The officers of the society...
...University hockey team defeated Dorchester on Franklin Field, Saturday afternoon by a score of 2 to 0. As the ice was in very poor condition only ten-minute halves were played. The Harvard line-up was as follows: Russell, goal; Vanderpool, point; Hardy, coverpoint; Beardsell, Goodridge, Laverack, Hoxie, forwards...
...first scholarship ever bequested to Harvard was founded in 1643, by Lady Ann Mowlson, of London, by gift of a hundred pounds, "to be and to remain a perpetual stipend for the maintenance of some poor scholar until such time as such scholar doth attain the degree of a Master of Arts." This is unquestionably the oldest foundation of the kind in this country...
From 1643 to 1800 the College received about forty bequests for the aid of poor and deserving scholars, having an income of from $50 to $300 each. Up to this time the accounts of the College had been kept in a single entry and annual assignments were made of the specific incomes of the several scholarships. Just before the close of the eighteenth century the system of double entry book-keeping was adopted, and the existing bequests of which the Treasurer had any knowledge were bunched in a single account termed the "Exhibition Account." The records of some...