Word: cents
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Scientific School has gained 10 per cent in numbers, and much more in the porportion of regular to special students. $20,000 have been spent in improving the departments of Engineering and Architecture chiefly for apparatus. A revision of admission requirements is a probability for the near future...
...direction of Roy A. Thomas, an old 'varsity player. The team will be materially weakened by the operation of a new rule, which prohibits from candidacy for the team all men who played on summer nines. It is certain that in consequence of this rule fully 75 per cent of last year's players and substitutes will be cut off. Only three of last year's men will be left. These men are Captain Blakely and outfielders Grau and Gorman. Willson, Brown and Stokes of former 'varsity nines are also eligible. A professional coach will direct the candidates for pitcher...
...memorial to a student who died during his college course, has been so far, and promises to be in the future, self-supporting. The plan by which the privileges are paid for is this: The annual fee is one dollar only. Tickets of the value of three cents are on sale at the office of the secretary and are sold in any quantity. None but members can purchase tickets. These are given up to the attendants in charge of the various departments whenever use is made of the latter. The aim is to have the fees...
...lecture began with quotations of figures from the last census. It divided crime, in the legal sense, into crimes against government, society, property, person, and crime on the high seas. Of these, fully 50 per cent are committed against property, chiefly in the form of theft. It was also shown that criminals in the United States are largely of foreign extraction. They are of all degrees of education, including college bred...
...elections which delay legislative business (exs. 1839, 1849, 1855, 1859, etc.).- (1) When parties are evenly divided none will give up such an all-powerful position.- (c) Corrupt use of power by Speaker to further corporate interests: Cong. Rec. 44 Cong. 1 Sess. 3606.- (d) Minority summarily overridden: 19th Cent. XXVIII...