Word: debts
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Forum "Our National Debt," by Henry Sherman Boutell...
...dining hall a fire-proof floor with fire-proof stairs and partitions at the east end; also for cold-storage and electric-lighting plants, and for ventilation of the kitchen, and to charge interest upon these advances from the end of the current financial year upon the standing debt of the association, at the rate of four and a half per cent a year...
...approximate cost of these changes will be $25,000, which sum will be added to the debt of the Association to the University...
Acting upon a petition recently submitted to the Corporation by the directors of the Harvard Dining Association, the Corporation has reduced the rate of interest on the "existing debt and advances," from six to five per cent. By this action, Memorial and Randall Halls are practically put upon the same basis in regard to their financial relations with the Corporation. This reduction will decrease the expenses of the Association for the year by nearly $700.00, the figures last year being...
...heard. The Boers, however, soon formed an independent government and refused all allegiance to any outside power. A claim on the Orange Free State, made in 1857 by the Boers, was followed by years of internal strife and native revolts. In 1877 the government was deeply in debt and wholly without resources, and in this condition the country was annexed by Great Britain...