Word: debt
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...would warrant. Meanwhile, there has been the ever present interest to be met at the close of each year on the loan given by the Corporation at the time of the renovation of the Hall in 1904, and the sinking fund to be set aside to pay off this debt. Early in the fall, when the price of board for October reached the high figure of $5.65, it was thought that this increase had been due to the fact that the transient tables were being run at a loss. Now this explanation has been fairly well disproved and every...
...debt of the Hall at present is $162,117.44, and the repayment in the form of a sinking fund would amount this year to $7,407.88. It is three-fourths of this amount that the Corporation offers to remit. The interest on the debt this year...
...cities today are not tax payers, indeed the same is true of the majority of office holders. More than two-thirds of the candidates at the last Cambridge election paid no taxes. Those who pay no taxes elect men like them selves, who will favor rockiness expenditure. The debt of cities in the United States is enormous. That of Boston increased in the last 12 years at four times the increase at the property valuation...
...series of recitals, the last of which will be held this evening, the University owes a debt of gratitude,--to Professor Spalding for his disinterested efforts in promoting the scheme, to the alumni whose generous contributions made the experiment possible, and to Mr. Whiting who appealed to record-breaking audiences and changed an experiment into an undisputed success: The object for which the series was instituted has been more than attained and many men have put in a pleasant evening and gained at the same time an intelligent appreciation of music, not in its lighter form, but in the full...
...city of Boston is also handicapped by a heavy debt, $116,000,000, and pays tremendous taxes to the state for the benefits she gets from its systems, her share of the metropolitan debt amounting to some $38,000,000. Although saddled with such a financial burden, Boston is in many respects one of the most fortunate communities on earth. The metropolitan park system, consisting of some seventy parks and playgrounds, is one of the finest in the world; the system of boulevards connecting the metropolitan reservations is nowhere excelled; the metropolitan water system has received encomiums the world over...