Word: sum
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...anonymous friend of the University has offered, and the Corporation has accepted, the sum of $150 a year for three years, to establish in Harvard University a scholarship to be enjoyed by a properly qualified graduate of Allegheny College, Meadville, Pa., who may desire to pursue his studies in one of the graduate departments. It is to be known as the "Huidekoper Scholarship," in memory of Edgar Huidekoper and Frances Shippen Huidekoper, of Meadeville, five of whose sons were graduated from Harvard College...
...collection for the earthquake relief fund yesterday amounted to $143.45, making a total sum of $323.40 to date. Men who have not yet contributed should hand in their contributions to the members of the committee or put them in the boxes placed around Cambridge for that purpose. As soon as all the money has been turned in, it will be sent to Lee, Higginson and Company, who have charge of the Boston contributions to the general relief fund...
...Gilbreth is one of the few contractors who issue contracts on the basis of the cost plus a fixed sum. He is the author of several books on construction problems, and was the contractor of Dr. Sargent's gymnasium, the Cambridge Electric Power-house and many buildings in Boston and New York, as well as on the Pacific Coast. Mr. Gilbreth has done much to put contracting on a higher standard in this country...
...capacity of officer of a bank in Lincoln, Nebraska, he spent $1,100,000 of his private wealth to prevent its failure, solely because he felt the bank should be saved for the sake of the country. This case of an individual's advancing so vast a sum for the sake of the community is entirely without parallel...
...annual report of the Museum of Comparative Zoology to the President and Fellows of Harvard College has been issued by Mr. Samuel Henshaw h.'03, curator. The Museum has received for an addition to its invested funds the sum of $5,000, the gift of Miss Maria Whitney. The income of the money will be applied to the care and increase of the Whitney Library, the volumes of which were brought together in great part by Miss Whitney's brother, Josiah Dwight Whitney, Sturgis-Hooper professor of geology from...