Word: loan
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that of the college work. The admission fee for the remainder of the current year was raised to $1.50. It was suggested from the floor that money necessary for enlarging the privileges of the society should be raised through the formation of a stock company or a guaranteed loan. The matter was referred to the board of directors with power of action. The treasurers report, was read and approved, and the secretary's report which follows, after some discussion, was also adopted...
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Professor Sumner of Yale will institute the plan of having a "loan library for political economy" this year for his optional class. A book containing 350 questions relative to political economic subjects will be the textbook used, and the optional study will consist of looking up the references bearing upon those questions...
...listener suggests that he would like to know more on the subject. "You ought to read such and such passages," says the happy owner, and the borrower carries the book home, and forthwith it mingles with his own and is merged and lost. Such a thing even as the loan of a borrowed book is not unusual, though it ought to be regarded as a social crime. Who that prides himself on his books has not painful vacancies among them? Here it is the second volume of an otherwise complete edition of Tennyson-missing ! And there a "horrible blank" tells...
...profession loses. Although it is a fact to be deplored, the scholarship is looked upon somewhat in the nature of alms, and no man can consent to receive alms without a sacrifice of personal independence. The remedy suggested for this is that the money be understood as a loan, to be repaid, if possible, after graduation. This might take away part of the sting, but some of the evil effects remain. The system, in fact, is nothing short of offering a prize to young men to adopt a certain profession. A man who enters a profession with...