Word: cents
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...many promising possibilities and advantages as Washington, and that a university established there has the chance of parity, if not primacy, among American educational institutions. The bill is unique in that it provides for the government issue of $20,000,000 worth of bonds, bearing 5 per cent; these to be turned over to the new institution, and the $1,000,000 thus provided yearly to be a fund for getting the best professors in the land. In this way the museums, the Smithsonian Institute, and other national institutions can be brought in close relations with the proposed university...
...contestants spoke, the judges awarded each of them a certain per cent, first on the form of the address and then on its substance. The results, as announced by the Hon. Wm. E. Barrett after a consultation of some fifteen minutes, were as follows...
...Princeton Graduate Advisory and Executive Committee held their annual meeting last Saturday evening. It was decided to build larger grand stands on the athletic field, which when finished will increase the seating capacity by 80 per cent...
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...improvement on the Brand Act. - (b) Measure was simply a compromise and satisfied nobody. - (c) Currency should not be changed so often. - (d) Arguments for the bill unsound. - (1) To raise the price of silver. - (2) To inflate the currency. - (e) Unnecessary locking up of bullion: Nineteenth Cent...