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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...rent. Rent is the difference between the productive power of any given lot of land and the worst piece of land that it pays to cultivate; and so profit is the difference between the net assets of any business firm and the surplus of an employer of the lowest possible grade obtained with the same amount of capital and goods. And this surplus must be due to the superior ability of the man himself, since in the same town with the same amount of capital one man will clear more in a year than another at the same trade. This...
...full line of spring neckwear, both in silk and piqne. The latter can be laundered, being the lowest priced good neckwear to be found...
...full line of spring neckwear, both in silk and piqne. The latter can be laundered, being the lowest priced good neckwear to be found...
...greatest total expenditure of any one member of the class was $5650; for one year, $1800. The least total expenditure of any one member was $875: for one year, $150. The average price paid for board was $4 a week. The average highest price paid was $5.25; average lowest, $3.75. One man boarded himself at $1, one at $2, several as low as $4. The highest price paid was $7. As a rule the young men who expended the most money in college have the least to show in literary and scientific attainments...
...student who failed on the year's work as a whole, although he passed on all his studies, could make up the deficiency by taking one or more electives in addition to those regularly required for a degree. The marks on these courses would be substituted for the lowest marks he received in the previous year's work. Now, a student may regain his standing "by attaining in some subsequent year such grades, that the average number of courses in which he stands below grade C is not more than three for each of the two years...