Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...management of the class moneys is now such an additional tax on the person under whose charge they are, it seems as if the duties might well be divided; formerly when a class consisted of only some sixty or seventy men, and the funds were only a thousand dollars or so, the duties of the secretary naturally embraced those of treasurer, but now the classes have grown to such an extent that the work of the secretary seems too onerous. Yet we would prefer to advise '77 to institute two offices, for it might imply shirking on the part...
...candidates for the Freshman crew are N. M. Brigham, D. O. Ives, P. Katzenbach, F. W. Smith, W. H. Schwartz, J. W. Wells, C. G. Weld, and A. Crocker, Captain. They are rowing a thousand strokes a day, and running five miles three times a week...
...prove beneficial to the University. Upon the Hasty Pudding Club the decree of the Corporation falls with great severity. They have occupied their present quarters for at least twenty-six years, and when the rooms were given them it was understood that they were to hold them permanently. Two thousand dollars were subscribed by graduates at the time, and this sum was expended on the rooms. Now, after being in possession for over a quarter of a century, the Club is told to " move on," and, with the hand-organ grinders, is banished from the precincts of the Yard...
...open election, it was thought, meant the assertion of a principle, from which it would be impossible to retrograde. The anonymous expression of regret for the ancient regime might, therefore, seem idle petulance, and call for no remark, even though its author feels it necessary to go back two thousand years to the system of oligarchy to find an instance of illiberality on which to affiliate his sentiments. Insulting allusions, however, to gentlemen who are fellow-students, combined with a narrow-minded misrepresentation of the recent liberal reform, do demand consideration. An unsparing rebuke, it seems to me, was called...
...summer caravansaries. It is only to be regretted that the element of actual danger will be wanting, and therewith half the charm of surmounting hitherto untrodden summits. The London Alpine Club imposes as a condition on all candidates that they shall have ascended to the height of twelve thousand feet above the sea; but it would seem difficult for the Boston club to form any valid test of the ability of candidates, as it is a sad fact that there is scarce a high hill in New England which cannot be safely ascended on a cloudy day and without guides...