Word: checks
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...trespass on the space of your paper to give a warning to some of the students of Harvard. There is a practice which is somewhat general among money lenders to induce students to give post dated check instead of promissory notes in payment of loans. The lenders say they would rather have a post dated check even if there has never been anything standing in the name of the maker in the bank. They represent this check to be practically equivalent to a promissory note. Many of the college men are led into this trap and do not consider...
...have been completed. A special section of seats will be reserved for members of the University and these will be put on sale Friday morning at Leavitt's. Those especially desirous of securing good seats in advance of this sale may do so by sending application accompanied by check to F. R. Comee; Symphony Hall, Boston. These orders will be filled in order of application. The prices of tickets will be $1.50 and $1.00 according to location...
...transmitted through Crete into Northern Europe. Hence we need feel no surprise when we note that the first historical datum in the history of the West and the Mediterranean is the tale of the Cretan king, Minos, and of his sea-empire by which piracy was kept in check and the expansion of peaceful commerce fostered...
...their lands. The second of the monographs, by C. R. Fish, is on "The Origin of the Spoils System." It deals with the beginning and development of this system under President Jackson and his successors, and describes at length the efforts made by the Senate, in 1864, to check the power of the president. The object of the book is to give a clear idea of the position in which civil service stands today, as shown by its past history. Mr. Fish has compiled a set of tables, showing in detail the removals from office under various presidents...
...nursery of accurate scholarship and sound thinking. Indirectly through his pupils, and directly through his writings, he did much to educate public opinion; and he would have done more, had not his desire to enlarge his sphere of influence--for he was not without ambition--been held in check by the abiding belief that his paramount duty was to the institution into whose service he had entered...