Word: cents
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...should be presented. The following are, I believe, the principal arguments for the new classification system: First, the class limits are so large that an instuctior can in general easily determine in which class any man belongs. The old way of expecting an instructor to decide within one per cent. of the value of a man's work was absurd. Second, the new system will do away with the pernicious practice of working "for marks...
...first of these arguments is plainly weak. It is easy to see that an instructor might find several examination books (say, for example, four) the difference in worth between any two of which might not exceed one per cent., yet of which the best clearly belonged in class a, the worst in class b. He must then decide into which class to put the two intermediate books. Whether he puts both in a, both in b, or one in each of these classes, he has to make a distinction quite as fine as any under the old system. The result...
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...operative Society will give 12 1-2 per cent. discount from present laundry prices to all whose linen is called for and returned by the errand boy, as soon as twenty-five more men make the special arrangement. Regular laundry days, Monday and Thursday. At present the boy calls for linen on Monday morning, and returns Thursday p.m. or Friday a.m. Under the arrangement proposed above, boy will collect and return on both days. Special laundry bags are loaned gratis. The Society is not competing against cheap laundry work, and the present excellence of the work done will be maintained...
66Troy Laundry. - The old established Troy Laundry; six deliveries a week; all our work warranted. Collars and cuffs 1 cent each. Troy Laundry, best in the world. Laundry called for and delivered. Clothing cleaned, repaired and pressed. Troy Laundry office at J. W. Brine, 10 and 11 Harvard...