Word: sums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...common law, according to the catalogue published in 1723. Very few law books had been received between 1723 and 1817. The Corporation immediately granted $500 for the purchase of law books, to which were added gifts amounting to $181.74. Professor Stearns did what he could with this sum to purchase a "complete law library" and also removed from the college library as many law books as he could find...
...Marine, says that " France has gone as far as she can in the limitation of her naval power." He adds that France does not need a large navy, but a modern and efficient one. He also asserts that during the past three years France has saved a total sum of 280,000,000 francs on naval expenditure. The Chamber of Deputies has passed a measure reducing the number of officers in the navy, which effects an economy of 40,000,00 francs yearly...
...announced yesterday that through the generosity of the Amos Lodge of the B'nal Birth of Boston the University Menorah Society will offer the sum of $100 to be awarded as a prize for an essay by an undergraduate on a subject connected with the work and achievements of the Jewish people. The rules of the contest provide that competitors must hand in their essays not later than 5 o'clock on May 4, at 9 University Hall...
...United States. The scholarships are continued as memorials to those 126 members of the A. F. S. who were killed, many of them Harvard men. M. Clemenceau gave the process of his student. American lecture tour to the committee, which is now endeavoring to supplement his contribution by a sum which will establish in perpetuity two fellowships to be known as the "Georges Clemenceau Fellowships". These will send one American student to France and bring one French student to this country...
...Latin grammar; he has learned from them to understand his own language better. He has studied great authors, but, perforce, studied them piece-meal with little comprehension of their art or the reasons for their fame. Tired of parsing and translating, he imagines that these acts make up the sum and substance of college courses in the Classics and turns with relief to something else...