Word: sum
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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These have all been marked at very low prices, the object being to place them in good hands rather than to realize any considerable sum from the sale. They will not be sold to book-dealers...
...course. The governing Boards and the Faculty have had no intention of permitting the requirements for the Harvard A.B. to be lowered, although they have made it possible for diligent stu- dents to attain the degree in three years, or three years and a half. This insistence on the sum of attainments for the degree is the characteristic feature of the whole evolution. Since the general effect of the elective system during the past thirty years has been greatly to raise the quality of the instruction throughout all the courses and half-courses offered by the Faculty of Arts...
...number of graduates and friends of the University have pledged a sum of money for the carrying out of the project, and it is expected that this amount will be considerably increased now that definite steps, have been taken in the matter...
Professor E. C. Pickering, director of the Astronomical Observatory, has received notice during the recess that the Observatory has been given the sum of $2,500 by the Carnegie Institution at Washington for the purpose of affording resources for the study of the large collection of astronomical photographs which has been made by the Harvard Observatory within the past few years. An exhaustive study of these photographs, which are estimated by Professor Pickering to exceed 100,000 in number, has heretofore been impossible on account of the lack of funds available for the purpose. Many of the photographs...
...duties which have heretofore been those of the president are to be divided under the incorporation between the president and a treasurer, the salary of the former to be $300 per year, and that of the latter, $500, the total amounting to the same sum as paid the president for the past year...