Word: sum
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Library the authorities there take the trouble to notify the borrower, although the failure to return the book involves a fine of only five cents a day. In the case of the man who forgets to sign for his room, although his forgetfulness may involve a considerable sum of money and much of the pleasure of his college life, no such warning is sent...
Collectors are at work canvassing the class for funds, as a considerable sum must be raised this year to meet the expenses of the crew and pay off last year's deficit. Beside the regular eight, Gleason and Phelps have been taken to the training table as substitutes. The makeup yesterday was as follows: Watson, stroke; Wrightington, 7; White, 6; Phelps, 5; Dunlop, 4; Chapman, 3; Cornwell, 2; Rantoul...
...awakening in letters and oratory has been greatly stimulated by the founding of the chair in rhetoric, also by the receipt of the sum of $70,000 bequeathed by the late Judge Billings for the establishment of a fund to endow a professorship in English literature. As the CRIMSON editorially remarked last week, both the Faculty and students are united in their efforts to free Yale from the possible reproach of neglecting an important branch of college education...
...thief entered the University Boat House on Thursday and stole quite a sum of money from the lockers of the class crew...
...Lower Massachusetts to arrange for the payment of some expenses, amounting to about fifty dollars, incurred chiefly at the ninety-five junior dinner. President Emmons appointed a committee, consisting of Thorndike Spalding, H. R. Talbot, E. W. Forbes, W. M. Briggs, and R. M. Johnson, to collect this sum from members of the class. The committee is to report in two weeks to the president...