Word: toward
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...France and England. The practical man would have flouted the scheme as chimerical. But, four years since, a few professors from leading colleges, full of an old-fashioned quality know as faith, met and devised a plan. Each was to appeal to his own constituency for an annual subscription toward the necessary expenses. The school was founded. At the present moment it has the active assistance of no less than sixteen colleges. It owns a fine site on Mt. Lycabettus, presented by the Greek government; has in process of erection a commodious and solid building to cost twenty thousand dollars...
Subscriptions toward the permanent fund of the school at Athens, of which public acknowledgement will be made, may be sent to the treasurer of the managing committee of the school, Frederick J. de Peyster, Esq., No. 7 East Forty-second street, or to Messrs. William Alexander Smith & Co., bankers, No. 58 Wall street, New York...
...been subscribed for cups to be presented to last years freshman nine - and forty-five dollars is not enough by half. It is to be hoped that the sophomore class will realize more fully the importance of this move that has been made, and contribute each one his mite toward the accomplishment of such a worthy object. As stated before, a very small contribution from each member of eighty-nine will make up a sum sufficient to purchase for the nine, handsome memorials of the services they rendered. It will be remembered that the cups presented to last year...
...subscription toward a new building for the Divinity school yielded $33,-828.21 in 1885-6. Strikes in the spring of 1886 delayed the commencement of work upon the building so much that the school will have no use of it during the present academic year. The society for promoting theological education has already contributed $10,033.91 toward this building, and is likely to give more still. The other subscribers, with one or two exceptions, were persons connected with the Unitarian denomination...
...hope for any degree of success whatever. Captain Willard we are sure will do all he can but he is laboring under great disadvantages, having so much raw material and being without the incentive of a victorious nine behind him. If the nine is to make a step toward regaining its lost position, it must have the hearty, whole-souled support of the college. The men are willing to do their part. Do not let them fail, because the college does not do her part...