Word: sum
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...March Atlantic on the Transition from School to College in which he discusses the transition in personal character, broadly speaking, from youth to manhood, which the average Freshman undergoes. The average Freshman is considered as having "an ill-seasoned body, a half-trained mind, jarred nerves, his first large sum of money, all manner of diverting temptations, and a profound sense of his own importance." In this interesting condition he is dropped into the large, free college world, where study seems to be optional, so far as he can hear, and where he meets "new and alluring arguments for vice...
...reason for having an artesian well with a good supply of good water for the use of the Union. By this again two objects would be attained, namely, furnishing the Union with water which every one would be willing to use, and obviating the necessity of paying a large sum each year for the water supply of the pool...
...Bell has rung from the belfry of Harvard Hall. Even if considerations of historic value and association go for naught, the mere fact of its long and faithful service should give it some claim upon the sentiment of the University. For the Corporation to sell it for the small sum which the weight of its metal would bring, would be to say the least, a sordid act. But even if the Old Bell means to the Corporation only the opportunity to make a hundred dollars, I am sure that it has for the students a value which...
...University has lately received from Mrs. E. C. Hammer of Boston, the sum of $500 "for the purchase of Scandinavian books or books relating to Scandinavia." As it is Mrs. Hammer's intention to present the same amount annually to the University for this purpose, there is good reason to believe that in time the Harvard Library will contain the best collection of Scandinavian books in America...
...Josiah Stickney. Through Massachusetts Horticultural Society, which held the sum for thirty years under an indenture, after which time it had to paid over to Harvard, to be used in the Lawrence Scientific School, or in connection with botany or horticulture...