Word: interesting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Seniors are requested to be extremely judicious in the distribution of their tickets, as it is manifestly for their own interest that all tickets shall be kept out of the hands of the speculators. The reasonable demands of porters, goodies, waiters, postmen and College employees will be attended to by the Committee...
...premium, or the insurance for the full amount of the policy being extended during a period shown therein, if no request is made, and no abatement from the death claim in case of death during the term of extended insurance. The privilege of cash loans at five per cent. interest for amounts shown in the policy, at stated times during the accumulation period (10, 15, or 20 years), after the policy has been five years in force. Six options in settlement, under the Ordinary Life form of policy, and as many as are applicable under other forms...
...York Life's leadership is also shown in its greater promptness, completeness and frankness in report-making. Its annual report for 1895 was published January 11, 1896, and contained a complete schedule of its bonds and stocks, with interest rates and market values. Realestate schedules are also published for distribution to all who ask for them. The report is made after methods understood by the public, upon the basis of business completed and money actually received and disbursed, without the old-time padding and cross-entries...
...Interest in cycling in the University is now centred in the Invitation Bicycle Meet to be held at the new Charles River Park on Wednesday afternoon. It is to be the first of the kind ever held at any college and is under the auspices of the Harvard Cycling Association. Noted college riders from various parts of the country have entered their names, and the meeting will probably be one of the most successful ever held by any college. The Charles River Park is admirably adapted for bicycle racing, having been built especially for that purpose, with raised track...
Secondly, the service these men rendered to their country was absolutely disinterested. No professional interest in war influenced them. No pay, or prize money, or prospect of pension had the least attraction for them. They offered their services and lives to the country, just for love, and out of the determination that, if they could help it, the cause of freedom should take no harm. No mercenary motives can be attributed to any of them. This disinterestedness is essential to their heroic quality. The world has long since determined the limits of its occasional respect for mercenary soldiers. It admires...