Word: sum
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Perhaps, I may further add, as one way out of the difficulty, that if there is no standing fund for the gymnasium expenses, arrangements should be made whereby the alleys may be repaired, and then a small sum of five cents be charged for every game played in them...
When we try to sum up his teaching in a formula it seems like the uttering of common places. He spoke of God as the loving Father, of religion as an answering love which tries to shape the life into conformity with the divine ideal, of duty as being fulfilled in love. In His teaching religion and morality were so interfueed, had become so undissolably blended with one, that they can not be severed even in our thought. Men sometime speak of the sermon on the Mount as though it were merely a system of ethics. Every word is transfigured...
...endowed by Mrs. M. H. Hotchkiss of N. Y. city, a native of Salisbury, with funds amounting to $200,000 in addition to the sum of $150,000, the cost of the buildings, and $25,000, the cost of the surrounding land, which has an area of seventy-five acres. The school buildings will have a frontage of five hundred feet, with a large three-story structure at the centre, flanked at either end with buildings for the masters, which will connect with the central structure by covered corridors...
...sum of $250,000 has recently been bequeathed to the United States Government to erect a memorial hall at the West Point Military Academy...
...crew has almost no money whatever and none is being subscribed, so it is impossible to state when the men will go to the training table. It is hoped, however, that a sufficient sum will be pledged to enable them to go by the first of April...