Word: markets
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...with their school-work. There should be some real home interest in the life of the community and a real endeavor to interest the child in the best literature by reading aloud. The table conversation should not be on the malfeasances of the cook, the fluctuations of the stock market, or the doings of the neighbors, but on matters of larger interest, such as literature, morals, and politics. In conclusion, Dr. Peabody bewailed the moral decadence resulting from the influence of the modern theatre and novel...
Ephemeral as the stock-market quotations which lend humor to the situations, and as slender as the broker's tape out of which the plot is spun, Mr. Owen Wister's little story of "Mother" is nevertheless not unworthwhile. On these few genial pages, the author's touch is light and graceful; and if one cares for a moral, there is perhaps, one to be found. Not the least amusing part of the story is that "Mother" turns out to be--but this is infringing on Mr. Wister's copyright. P. A. HUTCHISON...
...succeed, we must give up all notion of a desultory scheme of amateur coaching. "We did not start out," he says, "with the expectation that after only two years of work (and it was hardly a year and a half) we should be able to compete in the market with our big rival house of 15 years' standing and development. The attitude throughout is one of hopefulness,--provided we recognize that the difficulties can be overcome only by a far-sighted and consistent business policy...
...arrive at a certain prominent New York hotel, James P. Brown, on the day of his arrival registers at the same place, and, being mistaken for the millionaire, is given a magnificent reception. He also accidentally opens a letter to the millionaire from a certain newspaper, requesting a market forecast. James Brown, more commonly known as "Jimmy," is about to disclose the fact that he is not the great man, when he meets an old college chum named Knight Byrd who induces him to keep up the pretence and to manufacture a market forecast for the paper. The letter...
...Ellsworth, of the State Board of Agriculture, will speak before the members of the Agricultural Society on "Market Gardening" in the Gymnasium of Ware Hall this evening at 8 o'clock. The address is open to all members of the University who are interested in the subject...