Word: sums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Committee voted that a dividend be given to colleges taking part in last year's outdoor meet and having to come a considerable distance to Cambridge. A sum of $5000 will be available for this purpose from the profits of the meet, and will help to defray the expenses of mileage. In order to benefit by this dividend, a college must have had at least ten competitors in the meet...
...gentleman I am about to introduce," says the toastmaster, "needs no introduction from me." Nothing could sum up better the preliminaries of today's little debate with our neighbor in New Haven and his dog. There are those who turn up their noses and sniff at the idea of keeping a bull-dog, but years of experience with our old acquaintance and many close encounters, when we have come over the fence minus the fringes of our coat-tails, have taught us only respect for him, especially when we go over to play in his back yard...
...Great teaching," declared Professor J. L. Lowes last night, "is that behind which lies a sum of knowledge of which only one-tenth is used. He is the last teacher who never stops learning...
...Meterological Institute issues a bulletin stating how the earth-shock coincided with the passage of a sun-spot over the central meridian of the sun. Various seismographic measurements tell the strength of the shock; and this constitutes almost the sum of our understanding of a particularly terrifying fact...
...prospect of a real golf course for Harvard men becomes more and more imminent. With the undergraduate campaign just launched, the Harvard Golf Association has made a strategic move. Wisely enough, the aim is not for a large sum but for a widespread contribution. It is out of the question to raise the full amount $150,000 or even a moderate portion of it, here in the University. What can be accomplished is to convince the alumni, on whom the burden must fall, that their larger contributions will not be made in vain. They must be made to realize...