Word: sum
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...committee of the Department of English appointed to administer the Lloyd McKim Garrison Prize announces that it is possible to offer the prize for the first time, this year instead of next year as was originally announced. The sum of $100 and a specially designed medal will be given to the author of the best original English poem of 40 to 60 lines, written on one of the following topics: The Balkans, The Immigrant, Harvard College, The Strike-breaker, The New Japan, Charles Russell Lowell. Competitors are entirely free in their choice of form and in treatment of the subjects...
...University but by a number of men interested in the University. It owns furniture and loans it at a yearly rental of 10 per cent. of its estimated value, and every student leasing from it is obliged to pay the yearly rent in advance and to deposit a small sum of money--ordinarily $2.50--as partial guarantee for the safe return of the furniture. The primary purpose of the Association is to be of use to students who find it necessary to exercise strict economy, but any student registered in any department of the University may freely apply for furniture...
Thus it is evident that after deducting the subscriptions, there is still left a considerable sum for permanent improvements...
...fencing team, for 1901-1902 (I take this year as it is the only one for which I have figures) were $1,331.67. Tennis yields a surplus. If now $1,500 is added as expense for basketball and increases in the expenses of these other minor sports and this sum with the subscriptions is subtracted from last year's credit balance, there is still a surplus of over $25,000. Now does it seem justifiable to force subscriptions for the minor sports upon the students to raise a surplus of about $25,000 to $28,000, especially since that subscription...
...without subscriptions and with the additional expense of the minor sports added on, a credit balance of $25,000 is possible, why should the price of H. A. A. tickets be raised? Is not that a sufficient sum to expend each year upon permanent improvements, and the debt on the Stadium? CHANNING FROTHINGHAM...