Word: restful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...thing, and one thing only, can be done to keep co-operation alive and to give us the benefits of the society for the rest of this year, and that is a voluntary assessment footing up to about $600. With that sum, and the sale of the greater part of the stock, it will be possible to run the society through the year on a smaller scale, -say coal and wood, book orders, stationery, tennis goods, and the list of affiliated tradesmen, and employing two clerks, and the superintendent only one day in the week. If there are three hundred...
...running expenses of the society for the rest of the year, (5 months), cannot be safely estimated at less than $1750. The income for the same time cannot be placed higher than $800. At the end of the year. therefore, the society, instead of having as now, a surplus of $550, would be confronted with a deficit of $400. Furthermore, this deficit would be materially increased by a forced sale, at a most unfavorable time of the year, of the society's stock, for the society would have to meet its obligations in June...
...directors have considered a plan by which the society should carry on its business for the rest of the year on a greatly reduced scale, but after full discussion, have decided that such a course is inexpedient, believing that the only sure way of avoiding a deficit, and a consequent assessment, is to close the business forthwith...
...management of the University library to meet the needs of the college. The invariable answer has been that the college authorities were unable to accede to the requests of the students because of a lack of funds. The reason has been accepted, and the discussion allowed to rest. But we are now brought face to face with a pressing need of the Divinity School of money to prepare a proper receptacle for a very valuable library which has been presented it. We do not wish to appear blind to the interests of any one department of the university. We would...
...some are very curious and rare. the donation is received with gratitude, but also with embarrassment, for at present there is no accommodation for so large a collection. A condition of the gift is, that "there shall be secured, as soon as possible, for this condition and for the rest of the Divinity School library, a more adequate and safe place of keeping." The school thus stands in pressing need of a fireproof library building, distinct from Divinity Hall, yet connected with it by an easy passageway. The advantages of such a building would be threefold...