Word: sum
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Owing partly to the withdrawal of the sum of $250, which had been given annually for several years by a graduate, the University debating council completes the year about $300 in debt. A committee composed of A. A. Ballantine 1L., A. C. Blagden '06 and M. C. Leckner '07 was appointed to arrange for the payment of this debt and a part of the money has already been subscribed. The committee has planned to make the expenses of conducting debates less next year...
...likewise incorrect to state, as is so often done, that all "support" has been withdrawn from the minor sports. This year Hockey, Cricket, Basketball, Handball and the Gymnastic team have all received financial aid for "permanent equipment," which term has been liberally interpreted. In the case of Hockey the sum alloted by the Committee has been considerable...
...perhaps worth noticing that most of the arguments recently used against the present system would apply just as well to the attempt now being made to raise among the graduates a large sum for the permanent endowment of the University. Where would Harvard be if its graduates were to take the tone--"The subscription business, however, has become a nuisance"? Is it a fatal objection to the contributions now being made to the general fund that they are "unevenly distributed," and many men of small means give relatively more than some of their richer brethren? Would it not be fairer...
...sum up, then, the policy of the present. Athletic Committee...
...situation" is; and as we have all spent some time at Cambridge and have a common foundation of data obtained from experience and personal contact, let us not befog the discussion with too much preliminary analysis of classes, clubs and athletics and other elements that are interwoven in the sum total of elements which go to make Harvard's world; and let us not introduce into this discussion any hasty argument on the qualifications which of course exist upon every general statement that may be made. If we are to be heroic, we must, first of all be frank...