Word: spent
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...unsatisfied desires." It is always true of a great university that its income is never sufficient to meet all the wants which are constantly arising. The annual expenditure of Harvard has gone up to more than nine hundred thousand dollars, and yet much more than this could be advantageously spent. This enormous sum only covers the ordinary expenditures. For the many special needs there must be special gifts. And in this year's report the president mentions special needs in almost every department of the University. The first and most pressing need is for a new library reading room; this...
...Museum of Comparative Zoology has spent all the income of its restricted funds, as required by the conditions of gift and has used the surplus income of the Agassiz Memorial Fund as heretofore to pay interest upon and to repay in part, the principal of the advances from the Memorial Fund which were used to extend the Museum building and to buy fossils...
...Spooner is an unrestricted bequest to the Divinity School. Subscriptions paid to Aug. 1st, '91, towards a fund to be called the Joseph Lovering Fund for Physical Research, in recognition of Prof. Lovering's life-long devotion to Physical Science, amounted to $7,720. The income is to be spent for the promotion of physical research at the Jefferson Laboratory. Additional subscriptions to raise the standard of Medical Education, paid to Aug. 1st, '91, amount to $6,500. From Wm. S. Bullard $15,000 to found three Fellowships in the Medical School of $5,000 each. $5,000 from Henry...
...spent $3,500 on bicycle racing last year...
...morning of the 28th the clubs reached St. Paul at 7.35 and were transferred in carriages to Hotel Ryan. Most of the day was spent in looking about the city and visiting its various club houses. Many of the men stayed in to recover from their colds and get in condition for the concert in the evening. At 7 o'clock they took the train for Minneapolis and went to Hotel West on arriving there. After the concert in Lyceum Theatre which was beautifully decorated, they were taken in carriages to Villa Rosa, the home of Mrs. Morrison, on Twenty...