Word: cent
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Compulsory membership, the quick destroyer of social organizations, has been definitely discarded; the dues have been reduced fifty per cent. In the autumn the list of members cannot but include nearly all in the University...
...Treasury Warwick that all those in the service of the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps who were discharged from service between November 11, 1918, when the armistice went into effect, and February 28, 1919, may file claims with the Auditor of the War Department for one and one-half cents a mile additional for travel expenses from the place of discharge to their homes. Comptroller Warwick decided that the act of February 28, 1919, allowing a mileage of five cents was retroactive to November 11 as well. Men discharged between those dates were allowed only three and one-half cents...
Spirituous liquors, then, must go, for in the only and imperfect way at our disposal, the people have declared against them. But are light wines, beer, and ale, "intoxicating"? Almost anyone would answer in the negative. Certainly it would take gallons of 3 per cent, beer to have the slightest deleterious effect. As for light wines, even were they intoxicating, their high price would continue seriously to limit their use, and to do away with their abuse altogether. We feel confident that if the Supreme Court of the United States interpreted the 18th Amendment as applying only to spirituous liquors...
...College needs $26,050 more to complete its quota. The Junior Class has shown no marked progress and has yet to subscribe 73 per cent of its assigned quota of $21,000. The prescribed amount for the Sophomore Class has been approached to within $4,100 and at the present rate of advance 1921 will be over the top Thursday night. The Senior Class quota is now over subscribed $3,550. Though the loan is progressing nearly according to schedule five-sixths of the University undergraduates have failed to co-operate in the drive...
...drive will open today in the college and throughout the country, lasting until May 10. Bonds of denominations from $50 up may be bought by one of three methods: in monthly installments, with a payment of 5 per cent down; in three payments with 5 per cent down; or out right. They may be purchased through any bank and credited to the University. Bonds will pay 4 and 3-4 per cent. interest, and expire in 1923, although the government has the right to call them back one year earlier...