Word: interest
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...regard to municipal statistics, Major Darwin said that the interest on municipally governed enterprises in England rises only to about four per cent of the original value, and that municipal owners put aside only about one-fifth of the gain, which is not enough. Cities which manage their own street railways, get a lower return on their money than if the railways were rented out, the profit being eight-tenths per cent, in the former case and two per cent. in the latter...
Robert Treat Paine '88 presided, and introduced President Eliot, who said that he firmly believed in the bill which, in principle, will bring about more public interest in legislation, although the details of the bill might, in his estimation, be altered. He said that by its very essence, the opinion of hundreds of thousands of people is bound to be more accurate and more representative than any expression now given by legislators exposed to political influences...
...order to arouse an interest in the study of topics relating to commerce and industry, and to stimulate an examination of the value of college training for business men, a committee, composed of Professor J. Lawrence Laughlin, University of Chicago, chairman, Professor J. B. Clark, Columbia University, Professor Henry C. Adams, University of Michigan, Horace White, Esq., of New York City, and Hon. Carroll D. Wright, Clark University, has been enabled, through the generosity of a business firm of Chicago, to offer again in 1908 four prizes for the best studies on any one of the following subjects...
This year's play is perhaps one of the most successful that has ever been presented by the Pi Eta Society. Its exceptional charm is due to the gay costumes and spirited music. Throughout there is a certain dash and innocent deviltry which prevents for a moment lagging interest. The musical selections through which peep occasionaly strains of well known tunes, are, however, delightfully refreshing, and well adapted to the general trend of the plot--in which are combined the ingredients of youth, life, variety, humor and sentiment. Structurally the play is somewhat over convential. Although the scenes are full...
...addressed itself to the will and the moral sense of the individual. Legal evolution has been slowly developed from a union of law and right. In Roman times, right often existed without any laws whatever to affect it, and wrong was usually merely the violation of private or individual interest...