Word: sums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...highest academic distinction that can be won by a graduate of Harvard College, a degree "Summa sum Laude", was shared by seven men, as compared to the 15 who won it last year. These men were Eliot Morris Bailen of Dorcheter, George William Cottrell Jr. of Cleveland, O., Lester Ginsburg of Dorchester, Henry Melvin Hart Jr. of Spokane. Wash., Stanley Jasspon Kunitz of Worcester, Philip Edward Moseley of Westfield, and Norman Schur of Cambridge. Hart was Editorial Chairman of the CRIMSON, and a member of the Student Council Committee on Education. Moseley is an editor of the CRIMSON...
...more professors, more material equipment. Institutions already struggling desperately to maintain themselves were in danger of being submerged. One after another they appealed to their alumni, to love's of learning in general. A summary of sixty-eight such drives shows total receipts of $149,391,142 no inconsiderable sum. Harvard leads the list with $13,931,780. Princeton is second with $9,902,904 and is closely followed by Northwestern, Hampton-Tuskegee and the University of Chicago. The average of the sixty-eight drives is $2,196,928. This sum is less impressive, but the shock comes with...
...partake of it or in the generous will to provide it for others. It was doubtless in the light of this truth that New York University, with a present endowment of only $3,720,000, of late launched a drive for $73,000,000 over five times the sum achieved by Harvard. Yet it is impossible to ignore the comparatively unimpressive showing made by college graduates, which is quite of a piece with the declining number of marriages and of children. Not so much the will as the means is lacking. If Harvard, with all of its inherited wealth, were...
...Cook, who once described himself as a humble disciple of Lenine, has recently thanked God for Russia and has explained that the sum of £400,000 had been received from their comrades in the Russian mines in order to support the dependents of their English colleagues in a moment of adversity. It is indeed a touching reflection that the miners of Russia are prepared to work ten hours a day in order that their British colleagues may not have to work eight...
...highest price ever actually paid for a race horse was $265,000, for which sum August Belmont parted with Tracery to Señor Unzue. Though Sir John Rutherford paid only £5,000 for Solario, he may well reap £30,000 a year by offering him at stud...