Word: summing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since the expenses of students in the college and in the business school are not greatly different, this sum must apply as well to the cost of lectures in the college. Even to that rare individual who has calculated the price of each lecture on the basis of tuition fees as fifty cents, four dollars and five cents must come as a shock. An added hour of sleep is certainly worth fifty cents, but at eight times that amount its desirability becomes questionable. And it would seem that once the pecuniary value of lectures and section meetings has become fairly...
...possible to travel from Harvard Square, with transfer, to almost any outlying point for only five cents instead of the legally ordained ten? And yet to argue, as Mr. Shepherd probably would, that all these souls will degenerate into safe-crackers, or that they would under temptation steal any sum on which they could lay their hands, is palpably absurd...
...outside of all proportions we were willing topay, for we maintain that the only assets in the school are books and furniture, and that the good-will the legatec seeks to capitalize is something we instructors have shared with Mr. Nolen in founding. "We have offered a sum we consider commensurate with the value of the tangible assets, but it has been rejected...
...like squash, can be continued in later life with all the benefits and eagerness of youth golf deserves every facility and stimulus which can be given it. But two hundred thousand dollars looms rather large on a college horizon--and even if some generous benefactor should present the entire sum with no strings attached, such as a Chairman in Anglo-Saxon poetry or India philology it might not be justifiable to sink it in a golf course. Universities require many things; this one in particular has certain pressing needs which seem to follow a sort of Malthusian law with...
...position of this country is entirely different. Our security on land and sea remains unmenaced, but our economic existence has been gravely endangered, owing not to the inability of Germany to pay a certain sum in reparation, but to the acute and persistent dislocation of the markets of Europe occasioned mainly by the uncertainty in the relations between France and Germany, the continued economic chaos in Germany, shown so clearly by the violent fluctuations in the value of currency, and the ultimate uncertainty of the relations between France and ourselves...