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...subscribe, let us hear no more of the complaints that have been so often made for several years past. The thousand men who, during five months of the year, are put to such inconvenience by slush and mud in the Yard should surely be willing to subscribe a sum sufficient to provide a remedy for this state of things. The Crimson heads the list with a subscription of twenty-five dollars...
...begin being benefactors to the College immediately after they graduate, and to tax themselves a certain amount annually for ten years to aid in its support. To be sure, it is easier to pay five dollars a year for ten years than to pay fifty dollars down; but the sum paid is none the less fifty dollars, and would buy fifty dollars worth of any commodity in the market...
...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...
...move, as an amendment," exclaimed an impulsive youth, blushing deeply, "that the sum be devoted to the purchase of saddle-horses for the tutors...