Word: small
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...keep distinguished professors at the university and deliver promising young men from the temptation of business offers far superior to their scanty pay. The library, the university press, various objects undertaken, or that ought to be $30,000,000. May Columbia get it, in large sums and in small, and on short notice! --New York Times...
...collected at the Harvard-Princeton game, the big Stadium event of the same year, was by $1,500 than the amount contributed Saturday. A collection amounting to $5,276.80 was made between the halves of the Yale-Princeton game in 1914. In the collection Saturday, excluding the small sum yet to be counted, there was $1,578 in one-dollar bills; $300 in two-dollar bills; $510 in five-dollar bills; $210 in ten-dollars bills; $80 in twenty-dollar bills; gold amounting to $22.50; $677 in fifty-cent pieces; $1,387.76 in twenty-five cent pieces...
...Corporation has granted permission for the ushers to take up a collection between the halves of the game today for the benefit of the Harvard Surgical Unit. A comparatively small number of men have contributed enough to defray the expenses so far and to pay for all of the instruments, and equipment used by the unit, surgical dressings, much of the bacteriological and anaesthetic apparatus and some of the buildings...
...development of the team has been slower this fall than for several years past. The season started with Colby as the University's opponent on September 23, and the first game resulted in a victory for the University by the small score of 10 to 0. Although Colby has since won the Maine championship, her team at the time of the game with the University was not a strong one and the fact that the University could not roll up a larger score indicates the original weak offensive power of the team. The following week Bates was defeated...
...Almost immediately after there came the sound of thousands of heavy rain drops on a stiff canvas or like the cracking of innumerable small whips; all this punctuated by a peculiar bizz, bizz, whizz sound like someone whistling in surprise. I could not help making the inward remark, 'I knew war was tought, but look here, boys; isn't this a bit too rough?' It seemed that the Germans had exploded a mine under one of our trenches, then opened a violent fusillade to capture what remained of it. Being second-line troops just arrived from resting up, we were...