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...proved to be, an important security against disease." The only question left to be discussed, then, is that of economy. The students are now paying janitors $25 per year for making fires, etc. The average coal bill paid annually by each student is probably about $25. The total sum, then, paid for heating a room, is $50 per year. In addition to this, open fires cause a great deal of damage to carpets, and increase the danger of setting fire to buildings two-fold. It seems to us that if the college authorities should provide a good steamheating system...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/17/1882 | See Source »

Yale, during the year past, has received gifts amounting altogether to the sum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTES AND COMMENTS. | 1/16/1882 | See Source »

...report that Columbia was founded from the proceeds of a lottery, owes its origin to the following: In 1746, the governor of New York approved an act entitled "An act for raising the sum of Sigma250 by a public lottery for this colony, for the encouragement of learning and towards the founding of a college within the same...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/4/1882 | See Source »

...giving very hearty support this fall to our University Athletics, either by subscriptions or by training, for the honor of the Crimson. The Football Team, of which we were all so proud, was well supported, it is true, when it went to New Haven, and realized a sum sufficient to be a decided help in paying its expenses. But the cost of the two New York trips was large, and on account of the bad weather but very little money was taken at the gate, so that the Team fell considerably behind in finances. The managers are now going among...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/9/1881 | See Source »

FOUND, a purse (supposed to belong to some member of the Annex), October 28, on Oxford Street, containing a certain sum of money, a ticket to Waltham, and a note addressed to Miss D. M. Contents of said note as follows: "He is dark, very dark, and the handsomest fellow you ever saw. You can't mistake him. He had on a straw hat with a black ribbon around it, and had the sweetest little mustache! a greenish coat (to suit the character, I reckon), and trousers a little lighter. He left at Somerville. Come...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 11/11/1881 | See Source »

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