Word: cent
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...operation of the students. Much more, then, is the care and attention of the students needed, when we have no policeman at all. It must be that those who have been wont to entice the muckers about their windows to race or wrestle for the proverbial "cent," forget in their present entertainment that they are but offering bait to fishes that never fail to bite, and that for but a few moments of possible amusement, they are bringing upon the college at large, days of inevitable annoyance; for one mucker, awarded a prize, is sure to become a mighty host...
...particularly good one, and the club is cramped by the small ground it is compelled to occupy, it being a very poor incentive to good batting to have tennis nets before one, and seats or picket fences at each side. And the mucker who "shacks" earns every cent he gets, by scrambling over the afore-named obstacles on an average of once a minute, to collect the balls which have been driven there...
...method of collecting these daily charges will be as follows: Five, ten, fifteen and twenty cent checks will be placed at Bartlett's, the Co-operative store, etc., and can be bought in any number. They can also be purchased of the boy on the grounds. And it shall be the duty of this boy to collect these tickets and the necessary amount of charges from each man, shortly after he begins play for the day. This shall be done, not by the players giving the tickets to the boy himself, but by dropping them into a box with which...
...free election was inaugurated anew, and has culminated in the action of the faculty which has recently been taken. The college has steadily grown with the enlargement of the curriculum, and each year has shown a steady rise in the scholarship of the students, until last year 77 per cent. of the freshman class received 50 per cent. or over for their year's work. If greater ease is allowed the student by the new regulations, it is compensated for by the elevation of the required percentage...
...total invested property of the university, which is placed at $4,803.-938, 36, against $4,623, 895, 57 for the year proceeding. The income was $241, 825, 32, at the rate of the general investments by far the larger part of 5.17 per cent. This is a falling off in rate from the year before partly caused by delays in changing the investments. The total expenses or 1883-1884 in all departments were nearly three quarters of a million dollars, the exact figures being $746.261.02, but about $529, 000.00 of this was for buildings, the money having been given...