Word: summing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...order to defray the expenses inourred in printing the tickets and the shingles, each delegate will be required to pay a nominal sum. Sine shingles will be given only to the delegates who have actually participated in the convention, they will not be presented until after May 18, the time when the Convention will meet...
...view of the present financial depression, it would be wise to wait a few months before attempting to raise the necessary two hundred thousand dollars by a general subscription. In the meantime it is possible that some benefactor will be found who may wish to contribute the whole sum, and thus immortalize his name. This has been the fortunate experience of the University of Pennsylvania, which has been recently given an expensive club house...
...committee on education has reported a bill to the Massachusetts Senate authorizing the state treasurer to pay annually after Sept. 1, '96, to the treasurer of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute the sum of $3,000 for the establishment of free scholarships in that school...
...sixties there were rich men in college, but the poor men were in such a vast majority that they set the fashion. They built their own fires and drew their own water, with frequent explosives of dissatisfaction. Still they had just as good a time. The sums today spent on athletics would have seemed perfectly fabulons to men in the sixties. The whole sum spent on athletics then was not over $1000. Yet they had their fair share of victories. Many sports now enjoyed were unknown then. The gymnasium then was small, but it was freely and conscientiously used...
...Prospect Union wishes to express its appreciation of the kindness of the Harvard Glee, Banjo and Mandolin Clubs in giving a concert for the benefit of the Union a short time ago. This concert added a substantial sum to our needy treasury and emphasized again the spirit of help fulness in the University to which the Prospect Union has never appealed in vain...