Word: sum
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...matter as far as possible to the advantage of the class itself. The committee would like to receive propositions from any members of the class who would care to undertake the publication. Any one so desiring will be expected to make a bid for the privilege and the sum paid for the same will be turned over to the class fund. Bids must be submitted at once...
...graduate committee, which has been in charge of the affair for some time, has heretofore refrained from activity for two chief reasons. One was "hard times," which discouraged any attempt to raise the large sum required. The other reason was that the committee has not felt at all sure that the club is generally desired by the undergraduates. The first cause is at least partially removed. Now it is in order to remove the second stumbling block once for all that the call is made for a mass meeting...
...generous sum of $30,000 has been deposited with the Mercantile Trust Company of New York by J. H. Hyde of the class of '98. as a permanent lecture fund for the Cercle Francais. The interest on the sum will be used to bring to Harvard every year a distinguished French man-of-letters, who will give a series of lectures on French art, literature or history...
...some years the estate of the poet, James Russell Lowell, on Brattle street, has been in danger of being sold and divided up into small lots. A committee, consisting of President Eliot, Bishop Lawrence, Professor Norton and others, has been trying to raise a sum sufficient to redeem the land and make a park of it. $19,000 of the necessary $35,000 has already been subscribed; but in order to make interest in the matter more widespread an appeal has lately been sent out by prominent men in other parts of the country...
...money is needed to pay the rent and to furnish the room, and though the sum required is about one thousand dollars, it should not be difficult te raise that sum for such a purpose. If five hundred only of our students subscribe two dollars each, the difficulty will be overcome...