Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Pole. They left their vessel, equipped with three sledges, two kyacks, and twenty-eight dogs, with provisions for the dogs for thirty days, and for themselves for one hundred days. When this stock was exhausted they lived on seal, walrus and bear meat, when they could get it. The account of the months these two hardy men spent in the polar regions is most thrilling. When a dog died or fell by the way, he was served as food for the survivors. Nor were the chances of death by starvation the only perils to face. As a little side issue...
...last speaker, who closed the debate, was C. U. Clark of Yale. He endeavored to show that the question was not of adopting some time in the future but at the present: The gentleman has said that the world has been prosperous, but solely on account of the single gold standard there has been great distress. The affirmative have not conducted their debate practically but theoretically. The United States can adopt the gold standard in but two ways. Both of these would bring trouble. The single gold standard is very bad. It has been the cause of all the evils...
...Committee of Arrangements, on account of the great sale of tickets, have decided to allow those who are unable to get reserved seats at Thurston's to procure standing-room tickets at the door of Sanders Theatre. A very few seats are still unsold at Thurston...
...Departments of Psychology and of Architecture now established in Dane Hall and in the frame building on Holmes Field respectively are contemplating an exchange of quarters. For the Psychological Department Dane Hall is very bad on account of the nearness of the square where vibrations and noises decidedly interfere with the experiments. On the other hand this central position would make Dane very convenient for the Architectural Department...
With the Junior dinner less than a week off not quite half of the class have signed for tickets at Leavitt and Peirce's. On account of the present size of the classes and the diversity of individual interests, an agitation has recently been started to hold more class dinners in order to strengthen class spirit. Ninety nine has acted on this suggestion by deciding to hold a Sophomore dinner. Ninety-eight, however, has not had a well attended meeting of any kind since the first election of class officers, and for this reason all who can are urged...