Word: repaid
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...instructor would be glad to have by him at any time for reference and information. If the income of the library is too small to print these free of cost, a small charge, to cover the cost of editing and printing, would not be burdensome and would be repaid tenfold by the trouble saved. For our library, there might be an account of how to find files of papers, where certain large reference books and maps are kept, the bound volumes of the college papers, the alcoves assigned to the various instructors, how to use the card catalogues most quickly...
...club boat house for the six months, Oct. 1, 1879, to April 1, 1880, the University Boat Club paid the college $80.00, at the rate of 87 per cent on its cost of $2000.00. The University Boat Club has repaid to the college all sums advanced by the college for water rates and taxes, except $115.20 paid for taxes in Oct. 1876, and these items repaid are not included in either side of the previous statements. The college has never, to my knowledge, refused or neglected to make repairs when the need of repairs was made known, and has never...
...attract audiences in Cambridge. We urge the Historical Society or the Finance Club, or some such organization to again come forth from its retirement and invite men from among our own instructors to lecture to us and we feel sure that society and the lecturers will feel amply repaid for their efforts...
...Although it is a fact to be deplored, the scholarship is looked upon somewhat in the nature of alms, and no man can consent to receive alms without a sacrifice of personal independence. The remedy suggested for this is that the money be understood as a loan, to be repaid, if possible, after graduation. This might take away part of the sting, but some of the evil effects remain. The system, in fact, is nothing short of offering a prize to young men to adopt a certain profession. A man who enters a profession with the aid of outside means...
...college certain students attempted to start a similar society, but, since at that time he did not feel the same interest in the cause which he now does, he neglected to aid them. For this reason he felt as if he owed a debt which could only be repaid by helping as much as possible the present society...