Word: sum
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...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 is a university need...
Some changes were made in the accounts after July 31. On Oct. 26, 1891, it was voted to transfer the sum of $23,341.97, the net gain from sales of bonds at a profit, formerly credited to the account of Railroad Bond Premiums, to a new account to be called "Gains and Losses for General Investments." It was also voted, at this same meeting of the Corporation, to charge off to this new account $4,751.13, the sum standing to the debit of the account of Unimproved Lands in Cambridge...
Among the gifts for immediate use are the following: an additional sum of $10,000 from Mrs. Henry Draper of N. Y., to be expended by the Director of the Observatory in prosecuting the researches in the photography of stellar spectra, with which the late Dr. Henry Draper's name is honorably associated; subscriptions towards the construction of a fire-proof building for storing valuable manuscripts and photographic plates at the Observatory, paid to Aug. 1st, '91 amount to $1800; subscriptions paid to Aug. 1st, '91, amount to $4,100 for cases and furniture for Prof. Cooke's addition...
22College Ho.LOST. - Between University and Post Office, a sum of money. Finder will be rewarded on returning the same to John Evans, 5 University Hall...
...tLOST. - Between University and Post Office, a sum of money. Finder will be rewarded on returning the same to John Evans, 5 University Hall...