Word: dollars
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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LOST.- On Monday afternoon, an old wallet containing a ten dollar bill, and some change. The finder will be rewarded by leaving it at the audltor's office...
...another, we say his action was not free; yet we do not necessarily imply that he was reluctant to do it, but only that he was not conscious of what he did. Suppose, for example, that when the collection-box is passed around, I have only a ten-dollar bill, which I put in sorrowfully rather than appear to give nothing. The gift is not free. But if by some mistake, I think that what I am giving is only one dollar, the gift of the ten is still not free, even if I do not grudge it on discovering...
...constantly keep calling attention to the Co-operative Society, but the reluctance to join of the students who have remained non-members, necessitates another appeal for support. That only ten men out of several hundred non-members should have considered it worth their while to invest a dollar and a half apiece in an enterprise where the returns will so much more than repay them, shows how indifferent to money matters a large portion of our college community is. Moreover, the promise of the management that, in case this necessary money should be raised, the society placed on a firm...
...little realize what a priceless boon has been extended to them. A firm has been established in Chicago known as the "Student's Literary Bureau," whose object will be to write "essays, orations and poems on every conceivable subject or theme." The terms are at the rate of one dollar for a single oration or essay. It is to be hoped that the firm will not be favored with many calls from this quarter.- (Amherst Student...
Tutors get very good pay. The average amount, I believe, is about a dollar and a half per hour. Some, however, tutor for only a dollar, or a dollar and a quarter. One of the recent notices set the price at forty-five cents, which is getting it down pretty low. Then there have been those who have received two, three, and even four or five, dollars an hour, which is pretty good pay. But to command such prices, we may be sure that the tutors have established reputations for getting their men through. The five dollar tutor must have...