Word: summing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...adopt it. So far as can be ascertained, the substance of what the Corporation wish to do is this: if each officer or instructor in the University will set aside five per cent of his salary for investment, the Corporation will add five per cent and put this sum out at compound interest, thus forming a kind of Savings Bank. Whenever an officer or instructor ceases to be such, he must, unless he has served the number of years requisite for retirement, withdraw his individual fund at the same time. And at the death of a fund-holder his accumulated...
...sixty dollars, and if the amount which would be paid in any case for heating it for evening entertainments be deducted, the net cost would be less than one hundred dollars. We cannot believe that even Harvard College is so poor that it cannot afford to devote this sum to keeping up the interest of one hundred and thirty men in an important study, especially when it is rich enough to waste many times as much in paying useless and inefficient janitors...
...presiding officer having succeeded, after an infinite deal of trouble, in calling the meeting to order, announced that a large sum of money had been bequeathed to the honorable institution which they (the Ferocity) represented, and that this sum was at their disposal, to be spent in any way they saw fit, - setting aside a certain sum for a new dormitory (rooms to be obtained for the paltry sum of $500 and upward), or else a new recitation hall (to be provided with wooden benches, candles, shutters, cold draughts, one small blackboard for each room, and all other modern improvements...
...move, Mr. President," said a venerable and benevolent-looking professioner, "that the entire sum be expended in plank walks, in order that the students may attend morning prayers and recitations in bad weather without danger of taking cold...
...move, as an amendment," exclaimed an impulsive youth, blushing deeply, "that the sum be devoted to the purchase of saddle-horses for the tutors...