Word: sums
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...course there are people who howl loudly against even such a proposal. Prussianism! Military life to usurp the place of a happy life! Terrific expense to the Government! Many ejaculations of like nature sum up the arguments of the objectors. As yet the issue has not been placed directly before the country but it probably will be before long. In any event the arguments pro and con will not change appreciably; and the way the fires of disunion are breaking out today, it would not be impossible that people will clamor for universal training in order to protect the country...
Charles Henry Fiske, Jr., of Weston, Massachusetts, Harvard 1893, has presented to Trinity College, Cambridge, England, the sum of 1,600 pounds for the establishment of a scholarship in memory of his son, Charles Henry Fiske, 3d, Harvard 1919, to be tenable by an American student nominated by the President and Fellows of Harvard University. The President and Fellows were recently informed of the gift and have accepted the privilege of making the nomination...
...work that has been going on for the past thirty years in the University Observatory. Night after night and year after year, without ostentation or public applause, the astronomers have been combing the heavens, searching among the millions of other worlds, their sole purpose being to add to the sum of human knowledge. Of all the new stars discovered since 1886, Harvard has the honor of claiming seventy per cent...
...following financial report of the Junior class has been submitted by R. E. Larson '21, treasurer. To date there is a balance on hand of $1011.50, which is a sum slightly larger than that usually on hand at this time of the Junior year. The itemized statement is as follows: Receipts. Balance from 1917-1918, $645.97 Returned from loan to Red Book, 184.90 Collection April, 1919, 1,029.50 Interest, 10.99 Total receipts, $1,871,36 Expenditures. Expense on 1917 Smoker, $41.45 Smoker, Feburary, 1919, 195.41 Smoker, April, 1919, 183.25 Class Scholarship, 400.00 Printing, 24.75 Student Council Dues, 15.00 Total expenditures...
...amount necessary for the expenses will probably reach $200,000, the largest sum ever spent by this country for the Olympic games. The increased size of the team will add to the expenses, and the committee in charge will no doubt raise the money by popular subscription...