Word: ten
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...case containing the more interesting cryptogamia. This has been arranged in part and proves attractive to all visitors. A few weeks ago a graduate of the University, who resides in one of our eastern cities, presented to the Botanical Department for present use, the very generous sum of ten thousand dollars. Of this amount, one quarter will be used by the Herbarium for the completion of its series of scientific publications, one quarter by the Botanic Garden, and the remaining half by the Botanical Museum in the completion of some of the cases which have been so much needed...
...hammer is to be thrown from a 30 foot circle, which of course amounts to an unlimitee run. The shot will be put from a ten foot square, which will not have the toe-board prescribed by the American rules...
...always assisted in finding rooms by the committee in charge of the Summer School, and the Foxcroft Club is kept open during the summer when it is run on a somewhat higher scale than in winter. The price of room and board will probably run from five to ten dollars a week...
They are quartered as usual at Gales Ferry, next to the Yale boat house, and have about ten days more to row before they meet Harvard and Yale. They are rowing a quick stroke this year, even going as high as thirty-eight to the minute. The watermanship and blade work is very good and the body work is all that saves them from being a fairly fast crew. Ragged as they are, they have made some good time already...
...spent less than a thousand a year is nearly twice as large as the number who spent more than that amount, and that the number who spent over two thousand is small. President Eliot, moreover, says that in his judgment there is not one man in ten here whose father can, without exaggeration, be called rich...