Word: sum
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...Murray first showed the significance of the word "logos," or man's words, which in early times contained practically the sum of human knowledge. In those days when a book was written it was considered the property of the author; it was to be kept from the public and especially from the professional writer. All things that were worth being recorded were termed "grammata" by the Greeks and the writer was a "grammaticos." As a book was intended solely for the author it was written in a form that was practically impossible for another man to decipher. Hence arose...
...subject to taxation any building otherwise exempt, of which less than one-half in extent and value is occupied for any residential use or purpose by such officer or officers; and provided, further, that in no event shall more than the portion of any building so occupied or a sum equal in value to such portion be taxed against the owner of said building under the provisions of this act; and provided, further, that nothing herein contained shall affect the exemption from taxation now enjoyed by Wellesley College...
...Paul's Society has undertaken to raise a thank-offering to be added to an offering now being raised among men of every diocese and parish in the country, and to be handed over in a lump sum to the Board of Missions at the celebration of the 300th anniversary of the Episcopal Church in America next October. The Society has sent out letters to churchmen in the University, stating that the thank-offering is to be devoted to extending the work of the Church at home and abroad, and to increasing its missionary force in churches, schools and hospitals...
...More than 760 alumni of Harvard University unite in giving to the President and Fellows of Harvard College the sum of thirty thousand five hundred dollars ($30,500.00) to establish a Shaler Memorial Fund in commemoration of the long services of Professor Nathaniel South-gate Shaler and of the great affection in which he was held by his many students and friends...
...subscribers to this fund have left the designation of its use to the undersigned committee; and the committee, after consideration of various projects, concludes that the memorial object of the fund will be best attained--first, by setting aside a sum with which the Corporation shall procure a memorial tablet to be put in the Geological section of the University Museum, or some other suitable place as may be designated by the Corporation; and second, by using the income of the balance of the fund for the benefit of the Division of Geology, in support of original research...