Word: sums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lord spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai . . . saying, "Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, after their families, by the house of their fathers, with the number of their names, every male by their polls...
...pieces of red tape. Only after being shunted around from Church Street to Lehman Hall, and from there back to two garages on Church Street, ore of which had to sign the release for the other, was I finally permitted to drive away the miscreant automobile for the nominal sum of $3.35. Everyone connected with this larceny assured me that the money goes entirely to the garage which towed the Ford three blocks, and the garage which kept in its back yard overnight...
...first administrative year will end on the coming June 30. What the Fund needs before that time is a large increase of relatively small subscribers. No man should be prevented from giving because he feels that he can spare only a small sum. One dollar from a man who can afford no more is just as welcome as $100 from a man who can afford that. The first principle of the Harvard Fund is that all Harvard alumni shall have a share...
...planned to employ this annual sum in the immediate future principally to improve teaching salaries all along the line, and also to help pay for the costly but valuable tutorial system, which will probably go down in Harvard history as the most important contribution to American education made by President Lowell's administration. But nobody knows how long it will be necessary to add to teachers' salaries or how long it will take to develop the tutorial system...
This great fund, will assure every worker in the church annually a sufficient sum to live on. Widows will get one-half the husband's pension, with a minimum of $300; orphans $100 each until they reach 21 years...