Word: sum
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...committee of the Classical Club, appointed to collect subscriptions for the fund for excavating Delphi, take this method of making a report to the University. They are happier to say that the generous sum of eleven hundred and ten dollars ($1110) has been promised or paid. This whole amount, except one hundred any sixty-two dollars ($162) was subscribed by undergraduates. The committee wish, also, to thank publicly these gentlemen, not members of the club, who have kindly given their time to the work of canvassing, as well as the editors of the CRIMSON and the Advocated...
...Street, at which Mrs. Louis Agassiz made a few remarks concerning the progress of the Harvard Annex, its plans and prospects for the future. Mrs. Agassiz in her address told how the Annex was first started ten years ago in four small rooms on Appian Way with a small sum of money, barely sufficient to carry the scheme through four years. There were then but twenty-five students, and these had no books save those in the college library, no laboratories and no apparatus. It was to their teachers, however, that the success of the Annex was due. The success...
...vassers for the Delphi Fund that reports are due on April 28. Only a few days remand to finish work. The preliminary reports were encouraging, but there ought to be sufficient interest at Harvard in a scheme of such great importance to carry the contributions to a much higher sum than was then reached. Every man ought to have an opportunity to contribute his share, not only as a help to the cause of art and education, but in support of a college enterprise. Until the canvassers have completed their rounds, some winning contributors may be omitted from the lists...
...sum of $1000 has already been subscribed towards building the new boathouse at Cornell...
Nowhere is the truth of Professor Wright's candid statement more obvious than at Harvard. There is really no chance here for a student to become thoroughly acquainted with the sum of Greek and Latin literature before graduation. During the first two years, as is right, he is confined to a minute study of a limited number of works with due deference to grammar. But during the last two years, instead of having an opportunity to widen his personal knowledge of Greek plays or of Latin poetry, he is obliged to devote his energies to text criticism and details...