Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...following Harvard men are entered for the championship games of the Amateur Athletic Union at Mechanics hall Saturday afternoon and evening: For putting 24-pound shot-W. H. Shea, '92; three standing broad jumps-C. H. Bean, '91, O. W. Shead, '93; one thousand yard run-A. M. White, '92, W. C. Downs, '90, G. R. Fearing, '93; seventy-five-yard dash-J. P. Lee, '91, J. S. Cook, '92, H. M. Sternburgh, L. S. S., W. F. Baker, '93, E. C. Moen, '91, J. H. Alward, L. S., A. H. Green, '92, O. K. Hawes, '92; six-hundred-yard...
...remind freshmen of this, for the expenses of both of these organizations are comparatively small and may in part be defrayed by the proceeds of match games. But it is different with the crew, for, though conducted on the most economical plan, a crew costs upwards of two thousand dollars, and all of this must be raised by subscriptions from freshmen alone. Two thousand dollars may seem at first though too large an amount of money to spend for such a purpose, but, if any man will remember that a shell and oars cost six hundred dollars, board at training...
...rebellion resulting from an abusive system of taxation is of course our colonial revolution, and in France the unendurable taxes from the time of Louis the fourteenth to the year 1789 forced the people to such a pitch of frenzy that the heroes they committed seem almost justified. Six thousand nobles and gentry fell by the guillotine, and yet when one considers the multitudes that these nobles had been starving to death by taxation for a thousand years, the clemency that the masses showed in their hour of triumph and vengeance seems almost wonderful...
...Saturday's issue it was stated that the interest on the Aid Fund would amount to only ten thousand dollars. This was an error. The interest on the aid fund for 1890-91, will amount to seventy thousand dollars...
Funds to the amount of over one million two hundred thousand dollars are held in trust by Harvard university, for the benefit of deserving students with limited means. The income of these funds, for the year 1890-91 will amount to about ten thousand dollars and will be distributed in the form of Fellowships, Scholarships, Price Greenleaf Aid and Beneficiary Money. The Fellowships are twenty-two in number, the Scholarships one hundred and sixty-two; of the former twenty are intended for graduates only; of the latter twenty are for graduate students 105 for undergraduates, and the remainder for students...