Word: furnishings
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Association, which is designed to help students in the University to furnish their rooms at small cost, loans furniture at a yearly rental of 10 per cent of its value. Every student leasing furniture is obliged to pay the yearly rent in advance, and must also deposit a sum of money, ordinarily $2.50, as a partial guarantee of its return in good condition. The primary purpose of the Association is to be of use to students who find it necessary to exercise strict economy, but any student in the University may freely apply for furniture...
...Harvard team was that the street railway system of New York City, upon which the people are very dependent, is in the hands of a great corporation, which, while making enormous profits, is rendering very inefficient and inadequate service. A remedy is demanded and is needed. Competition can furnish no relief because there is no chance for competition. Regulation has been tried for the past 15 years and has invariably failed. Municipal ownership is the only remaining alternative, and the experience of European municipalities and our own political wisdom argue for it. It will bring about cheaper and better service...
...Tickets for either performance may be had at the Co-operative, Herrick's, Koehler's Book Store, 149A Tremont street, Boston, or from A. G. Cheney, 27 Holyoke street, and will also be on sale at the door of the hall after 7 o'clock. The Mandolin Club will furnish music at both performances...
...novelists, however, have spread a very wrong impression of French life, by depicting almost exclusively the seamy side of society. In reality, the standard of home and personal morality in France is high. By treating sensational subjects the novelist endeavors to furnish relaxation, and generally tries to work out the problem of how a normal human being, placed in a very conventional society, will resist the temptation to follow his personal inclinations. The intellectual candor of the French leads them to discuss this problem openly, whereas our writers generally ignore...
...fund of $150,000 for the endowment of a chair of Applied Forestry and Practical Lumbering has been presented to the Yale Forestry School by the National Lumber Dealers' Association. The course will furnish instruction in log scaling and timber estimating and in practical work of bridge and dam construction...