Sentence examples for bursar from inspiring English sources

Schools' bursars have long been in the habit of meeting to discuss costs and pricing, and in 1997 the bursar of Sevenoaks School started collecting information about proposed fee increases, and circulating it between the 50 schools.

Alongside these duties, Keynes continued to serve as bursar of King's College, Cambridge and as editor of the Economic Journal; he took on new functions as chairman of the Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts (the body that became the Arts Council), as a trustee of the National Gallery and as a Fellow of Eton College.

"None of this governance tosh is of any significance," says David Palfreyman, the bursar of New College.

In turn civil servant, pamphleteer, don and college bursar, editor, company chairman, patron of the arts, government spokesman and adviser, member of the Upper House he touched no career that he did not brilliantly adorn.

In Myanmar, quasi-monastic but unordained practitioners (upasakas) may stay at monasteries and participate in the meditative and congregational activities of the monks for a limited period upon payment of a nominal fee to the bursar of the cloister.

Holberg was the rector of the University of Copenhagen from 1735 to 1736 and its bursar from 1737 to 1751.

The gap was explained however by Robert Gardiner, the senior bursar of Murray Edwards College, who said the Fitzwilliam and Churchill positions were part-time posts whereas the others were full-time roles.

He received replies from the heads of all except Chetham's, from which only the bursar wrote back, and described these as "relatively non-committal".

Rory Landman, Trinity's senior bursar, agreed and said: "I suspect we are not comparing like with like".

Each came with a Certificate of Authenticity and a photostat of a receipt signed by the Eton or Harrow bursar.

Each ca e with a "Certificate of Authenticy" and a photostat of a receipt signed by the Eton or Harrow bursar.