Word: sums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Province of Massachusetts heeded the repeated pleas of President John Leveret of Harvard for another building and appropriated 3,500 pounds to be used to erect "a fair and goodly house of brick." The province was poor in those days, and this was considered a magnificent sum. The building is indeed "a fair and goodly house." Its substantial timbers and brick have stood 200 years of wear and tear...
...football equipment, which comes second in point of size, the sum of $364,272 was expended but it ran a poor second, to baseball. Boxing gloves, a few medicine balls, punching hags, wresting mats, etc., caused an expenditure of $207,680. Basketball was the fourth largest item with a total of $195,995. For these four sports, the grand total...
More than $19,000 was earned during the last academic year by students seeking employment through the University Employment Bureau. Men holding tutorial positions received more than half of this sum; clerks received $1,382; waiters, $1,257; and musicians, $1,005. The total does not include the money earned by 85 Summer School students who enrolled at the Bureau, or by the 420 students who held positions throughout the summer...
...incidentals, including the souvenil footballs. All members of the Harvard Club of Boston may, if they so wish, have the charge for the meal placed upon their house account. All other Harvard men must apply for tickets to Sidney Curtis '05, Room 52, Equitable Building, Boston, enclosing the necessary sum...
...wrong to say that the greater their anguish the greater the pleasure of all real Americans." But we must halt and reflect. Whom does he men by Americans? I feel certain that a large number who proudly bear that name and say "Civis Americanus sum," do not feel so disposed; for are not Americans human? Are they not to be included in the category of men who are sponsors of a twentieth century civilization? Or will my colleague interpose that we have such a phrase for mere aesthetic embellishment? And again, if by Americans he means the real indigenous Americans...