Word: cent
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...engravings and flowers 20 per cent...
...photographs 50 per cent...
...trunks, china, etc. 10 per cent...
...printing, book binding and framing 10 per cent...
With a membership of 700 students, the society is assured of a cash income of $1,400; and if in the course of the year a business of $50,000 is done, which is not an immoderate estimate, the income from commissions, which average about two per cent. would reach $1,000, giving a total income of nearly $2,500, or more than enough to enable the society to be successful. The greatest danger to which the Harvard society is exposed is internal dissension. Students are too apt to follow blindly the lead of a few men. It was this...