Word: cent
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Directory of the living graduates of Yale University for 1914 has just been issued. It contains 18,287 names, and the authentic addresses of all but one per cent, of them. Of the graduates whose addresses have been ascertained, 5,498 live in New England, 6,311 in the Central Eastern States of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania; 3,111 in the Middle West; 1,234 in the far Western States; 105 in outlying territories and possessions of the United States, and 507 in a total of 42 foreign countries...
...obviously unfair, and to prevent the recurrence of such a practice I suuggest that the sales of "rush" seats at the coming concerts be managed in Cambridge as they are in Boston, and that no person be allowed to buy more than one of the twenty-five cent tickets. If some such rule is not adopted, there will soon be no order whatever in the line, for everybody will be pushing and pulling in an effort to hand his money to the man nearest the window, and football tactics will be adopted in the "rush" for the Symphony...
...payment of dividends to members of the Co-operative Society will begin tomorrow. A dividend of eight per cent. will be paid on all purchases for the fiscal year 1913-14. In applying for their dividend checks members are reminded that their 1913-14 membership cards are required as a means of identification. Checks will be mailed upon request to members absent from Cambridge, but cannot be delivered to friends or messengers without written authority from the owner...
...Wednesday the Co-operative Society will begin to pay the dividends to members for the year ending June 30. Last year sales were made to the amount of $429,987.76. This year dividend of eight per cent will be pair instead of nine per cent as in former years. The lowering of the rate was made necessary by increased expenses and the founding of a building fund. The dividend to be distributed at this time amounts...
...reduction of the dividend from 9 to 8 per cent. is entirely justifiable in view of the present business conditions and difficulty in procuring ready money. The margin of profit which the Society earned is very small--less than three cents on the dollar and the only reason that so large a dividend can be declared is because of a large proportion of sales to non-members...