Word: summing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Corporation paid $15,000 for the old Carey Building and it was decided to devote the whole of this sum to the erection of a new cage on Soldiers Field. It was thought at the same time that Mr. Carey's name should continue in connection with Harvard athletics and accordingly the Athletic Committee petitioned the Corporation for permission to call the new cage the Carey Building. This was readily granted and it was decided to give the old Carey Building some other name agreeable to the Carey family. When the new cage is completed a tablet in memory...
...regard to the raising of the money in Boston for the improvement of Soldiers Field and the erection of steel seats, it is announced that nearly $15,000 has been raised. In New York an equal sum has been subscribed toward the new boat house and although the collection has now ceased temporarily it will soon be taken up with renewed vigor. Thus the prospects for the speedy fulfillment of the plans seem bright...
...augury that Harvard will have, before long, a social centre. The committee of graduates who two years ago broached the subject, succeeded in bringing it before a great number of the alumni; but the financial state of the country made it inadvisable then to attempt to raise the large sum which will be required. Now that money conditions are more favorable, it may soon be time to go ahead: but what is needed first is to bring the project straight home to all the graduates. It occurs to me that this can best be done by the students themselves...
...subscription for the memorial to Professor Child has resulted in a sum of more than ten thousand five hundred dollars for the endowment of the Child Memorial Library; and this sum has been handed over to the corporation and is already drawing interest. Besides this money, two manuscripts and more than three hundred dollars for the purchase of books have already been received. These with the special library of the English Department, which contained more than six hundred volumes and which is now merged in the Memorial Library make at the start a library of nearly one thousand volumes, some...
...Yale on the other hand, is not so well fitted up, and is, in comparison, less popular. It is clear, therefore, that the Harvard Club should be supplied with everything which can minister to the comfort of its members. An extra effort must be made to provide a sufficient sum for the maintenance of a thoroughly well equipped building. Half way measures in this case, as in most others, will be worse than useless...