Word: loan
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...pieces of furniture which they do not care to take away with them, and which if sold, would bring nothing like their real value as measured by their capacity to do service in a student's room. A plan has been carefully arranged by which such articles can be loaned on proper terms to students who would otherwise have to buy. The plan is not a promiscuous charity, but simply a design for getting the greatest possible use out of furniture without allowing to a second-hand dealer a series of liberal commissions. The necessary expenses of life in college...
...above. The real facts are these: Shearman had at the games a pole which he had neglected to test beforehand, and when he came to use it he found that it was too heavy. He thought that Leavitt's pole would suit him better, and requested the loan of it. Leavitt is a much lighter man than Shearman, and there was considerable question whether the pole would endure the additional strain; it was therefore perfectly natural that Leavitt should be unwilling to lend his pole. The case was brought before the measurers, who decided, but not unanimously, to allow Shearman...
...nearly all from Sippar, the most famous Babylonian seat of the worship of the sun god. Those tablets whose dates are presented are from the reigns of Nabopolassar, Nebuchadnezzar, Nergalsharezer and Nabonidas. All the others perhaps belong to the ame period. Among the subjects treated are records of the loan of money, tithes and taxes, and offerings to the gods. The great Sippar temple seems to have carried on a large system of lending. One of the tablets exhibited still has the finger prints of the writer. One was a list of families, perhaps slave families. One beautifully written large...
...managers of the University of Pennsylvania nine have succeeded in raising a loan of $4000 for the erection of a baseball cage. The cage is to be 220 feet long by 110 feet wide and about fifty feet high. The nine will begin practicing some time in February...
...assignments of the Loan Fund for 1888-89 are now payable at the Bursar's office...