Word: statement
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...February. It is believed that if the fiscal year begins at what is clearly the natural time for joining the society, the membership will increase. Finally, the superintendent will have ample time in July to close up the business of the society, to prepare a comp ete and accurate statement, and to make his arrangements for the business of the succeeding year...
...sports which occupy so many of the students of the colleges are engaged in by those who least need them. The amount of strength required to compete in any of the ordinary sports is far above that possessed by the average young man. In reply to the statement that some may benefit by manual labor he says : "Not one in fifty of our schoolboys and girls does a day's manual labor in the whole year round : indeed the majority of them never did one in their lives. They grow, but they do not develop. It has been argued that...
Fiske bequest is lost for by the last financial statement, made on Jan. 1, 1883, the university property amounted to $4,699,582, exclusive of 168,000 acres of Western lands still unsold, and of the $768,800 already received from the Fiske estate. The principal loss will be in the enforced delay of the new library building and the Students' Hospital, for which Mrs. Fiske left...
...statement made in the October Miscellany to the effect that Mr. John Guy Vassar gav $25,000 to Vassar College during the summer is a mistake. The money was presented to the Vassar Institute. [Vassar Miscellany...
...paragraph in a Western newspaper led to the incorrect statement that Gov. Hamilton, of Illinois, had expressed the opinion in a public address that the study of Greek and Latin is practically useless. The fact proves to be that he spoke only in condemnation of the compulsory study of Greek in our American colleges...