Word: interests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among the papers which are expected to be of special interest is one by J. E. Willis on the crossed-vertical transit which is a new instrument of fundamental astronomy. Frederick Slocum is to give a preliminary report on the probability of clear sky for the 1932 total eclipse...
...third factor, which is essential to our present scale of production, capital--that portion of wealth which is laid aside to assist in future production. Current wealth production must be apportioned, on some basis, to the three factors in the form of rent to land, wages to labor and interest to capital. And from rent, wages and interest, one or all, must come the current living expenses of individuals, current expenses of the community, paid for by taxes, and the reproduction of and additions to capital...
...boxing enthusiasts who must now be accommodated in the cramped quarters of Hemenway. He further stated that he was heartily in favor of putting the sport on a firm basis, and that the only thing necessary to carry this out was a vote of the Student Council. The interest in boxing which these facts indicate would justify some definite action on the part of the Council. With minor sports becoming more and, more popular, the addition of boxing to their number would certainly be a constructive move...
...pity of it all is that the course has or should have considerable interest. Huxley and Darwin are chiefly considered. Their theories are still of present concern. It is true as well that the efforts of Professor Lewis to force his widely dissociated materials into a semblance of form are as attractive as any intellectual katzenjammer can be. But the reading assignments are lengthy, the quizzes frequent, and the standards high enough to exclude the Man-without-a-Purpose. It is this person's conviction that at some past day a misguided confidential reviewer shouted from the house-tops that...
...figures quoted as prices of meals at one club are of equal interest. More information of this sort, both in regard to existing clubs, and to the mathematics on which the University prices are based, is necessary in clarifying the grounds on which the University justifies what appears to be an exorbitant charge...