Word: sums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dowse Institute, established years ago by Thomas Dowse, expends a certain sum yearly to provide for a course of lectures of the highest literary or scientific character. Due to the Great War, however the fund during the past few years was given to charity, but now, with that emergency past, the trustees are perpetuating the custom with this series of lectures by Professor Kittredge. The tragedies will be analyzed from a critical point of view...
...gilded grasshopper, astride the top of the weather-vane, is about all that remains of the original Faneuil Hall in Boston. But Boston, unlike some other cities, retains a certain pride in its past, and the City has recently appropriated a sum of $150,000 to restore this "cradle of liberty" to something nearer its original countinence. The once-honored wells of the present structure are in large part to be torn down and carted away, and the old edifice that Samuel Adams knew will be reconstructed as accurately as possible...
...drama, as played by Mr. Hampden, is a good old comedy of plot and action, with characterization, minimized. Sir Giles Overreach is a stage villain without redeeming features, while his daughter (strange heredity!) is the sum of all charms. There is the attractive young lover, the afflicted hero, the fawning toad, and a host of stock comic characters brightly differentiated. When--one reads these Elizabethan comedies, one is puzzled sometimes to follow the twisted threads of plot and counterplot; but on the stage it all unfolds compactly and without confusion. The trick of deception, dramatic irony, we call...
...total annual cost of running the University is now over six million dollars, according to a bulletin issued yesterday by the University. The annual statement of the Treasurer, Charles Francis Adams '88, for the year ending June 30, 1922, shown that the total expenditure reached the sum...
According to the report the endowment of the University on June 30 last had reached the sum of $52,958,336,62. This is an increase of more than four and one-half millions over the corresponding figure for 1921, which was $48,205,260.57. Of the increase, over one million dollars came through the payment of Endowment Fund subscriptions and more than a million more in the gift of the Rockefeller Foundation which made possible the creation of the School of Public Health...