Word: spare
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...might be as well to add here, that owing to the nature of the case, most of what would naturally be the business of a treasurer falls on the superintendent. It would be impossible for an undergraduate to spare the time necessary for attending strictly to the funds of the society, as in that case he would have to overlook the accounts daily. His duty is therefore principally to act as a check upon the superintendent who manages altogether the financial details...
...week, would not fail to turn out a much stronger and better developed set of men at the end of every year. This addition to the regular curriculum, not being brain work, would be but a slight extra burden and might be made to fill up some of the spare hours between the regular recitations, the gymnasium sections being the same as those for the class room...
...seem to be necessary that this department should be closed for almost three weeks because recitations are not in progress. Many men finish their examinations from one to ten days before recitations begin again. To them it would be of great advantage if they could spend some of this spare time in the laboratory. Working out experiments in chemistry is slow work at the best, and any extra time which could be thus devoted to it would lighten the students' labors when he has also to attend recitations. Another class of men have some experiments which they have not completed...
...according to the president's report, is more unencumbered money for running expenses. The treasurer's report states that the percentage of returns for capital invested was smaller for 1883 than the year before, and that this decrease is likely to continue as long as there is so much spare capital seeking investment. One remedy could be applied to both these evils. Let the college take some of the unencumbered funds and build a new dormitory or dormitories, for there is room for several...
...twelve years. 10 per cent is much more than Mr. Hooper, the treasurer, can obtain from any ordinary investment, in fact twice as much. If the college is unable to build at present let them urge some of Harvard's numerous friends and well wishers to devote their spare money to such a worthy object...