Word: sum
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...well qualified to speak on "The Romish Church." The lecture gains in interest from the fact that it was not given last year owing to the strong opinion which many members of the Faculty held against continuing such a manifestly sectarian lecture. When in 1750 Judge Dudley left the sum of money which provides for the lectures he prescribed four subjects to be taken up in turn. The lecture which was to have been given last year, and which will be given tonight, was described in his will to be "for the detecting and conviction and exposing the idolatry...
...Hotchkiss has presented to the Yale Preparatory School the sum of $275,000, the greater part of which will be used as an endowment fund for professorships...
...lately given much time to the field, and six plans, which are only provisional have been drawn up. These plans will be printed later, and copies will be sent to graduates and may be obtained by undergraduates. Appeals will be made to the graduates to raise the necessary sum of $50,000 for carrying out these plans...
...dominant hero of fiction as he will appear in the near future. The originality and the masculine strength of the English are as strongly marked as is the general incoherence of the whole sketch. What its author says of the future hero of fiction understands by life, "a sum of sensations, strained and attenuated to the last point of consciousness" - might well be applied to the whole article...
...critical examination of a certain geometrical construction with a view to testing its value as a solution, exact or approximate, of the problem with which it deals." The Dante prize was won for 1889-90 by C. S. Latham, but he died before the award, and this sum of $100 is again to be competed for by students in any department of the University or graduates of not more than three years' standing. Four subjects are proposed, all having connection with Dante or his works. The Sargent prize of $100 is offered, this year, for the best metrical version...