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...personal knowledge that at the present time and for many years past a large body of the best and most respected young men at Oxford and Cambridge - sons, for the most part, of gentlemen of fair standing and property - meet all their university expenses, public and private, with a sum not exceeding L150 sterling, or about $750. I do not think this is much higher than the cost at Harvard. Certainly many young friends of mine, who are not deemed extravagant, spend considerably more...
...most munificent benefactors of Harvard College, died at his residence in Boston yesterday morning. His direct benefactions to the college, represented by buildings, endowments and permanent deposits, exceed $250,000, and include his expenditures on Thayer Hall, Thayer Commons Hall, Gray Herbarium, the Thayer expedition, etc. The gross sum...
Sarah Bernhardt's creditors in Paris have appeared in court with regard to the recent sale of her jewelry. It has been shown that the amount of money received therefor is insufficient to repay the sum loaned thereon...
...sparring exhibition in Madison Square Garden, New York, last night netted quite a large sum for the sufferers by the Western floods. The "set-tos" were between Sullivan and Prof. Laflin, Donovan and Billy Edwards, Joe Coburn and Prof. Wm. Clark...
...that the crockery assessment is too large for its specific purpose, a reduction might better be made in the repairs assessment of $175 a month rather than in the one of four cents a week; for of the total expenses of the hall, that portion which is a fixed sum and not variable with the number of members is what brings difficulty in times of lessened membership...