Word: amount
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...recent majority and minority reports to the Board of Overseers on the Political Economy department have awakened a certain amount of public discussion, as the Nation testifies by the editorial in its last issue on "Protection in the Colleges." Mr. John T. Morse, Jr., chairman of the investigating committee, emphatically protests against the course adopted by the instructors at Harvard toward the doctrine of protection and laments that Harvard sends forth every year "a solid phalanx of free traders...
Another thing to be noticed is the fact of railroad bonds being heavily mortgaged. In the case of real estate, the real estate must almost always be worth two or three times as much as the amount of the mortgage. But with railroads it is different; for the real estate of a railroad is generally but a fraction of the mortgage value. Hence it is that the value of the mortgage depends almost entirely upon the earnings of the railroad...
Western railroad stocks represented at first a certain profit to the stock holders but the actual money received did not amount to much. The stockholders of western roads have little by little grown to be eastern men, and thus it is that stockholders and the actual running and controlling powers have separated-a state of affairs which cannot fail to be disastrous. The bond holders are the real owners of western railroads...
...contains extracts from the Corporation records, extracts from the Overseers' records, University notes and a list of accessions by the different college libraries. Among the records of the Corporation are to be noticed the following: the acceptance of the offer of Mr. Nathaniel C. Nash '84 to give the amount needed to complete the botanical sections of the University museum; the receipt of $5,000 as the final installment of Mr. Francis Bartlett's gift of $20,000 for Professor Cook's addition to the University museum; the reappointment of Dudley Allen Sargent, M. D. as director of the Hemenway...
...class tug-of-war work now being done, matters seem to be moving along but slowly with all four teams, and the seniors especially have been backward in bringing out good men. What all the classes really need is an infinite amount more of energy put into the work. Tug-of-war may not be the best kind of sport, but now that the classes have determined to have contests, they must show far more life than they have displayed...