Word: nets
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...always be in an embarrassed and uncertain condition. Expecting to have to pay rent next year, the directors felt sure at the beginning of this year, that the society would not get through next year, paying rent, unless it were made so successful this year as to leave a net surplus of stock, and thus avoid the embarrassment and loss resulting from a surplus stock encumbered with debts. Their choice lay, therefore, between making this year merely a repletion of last year, and consequently, seeing the society in danger of dying at the beginning of next year, (and the society...
...NET INCOME AND OUTGO FROM SEPT...
...NET RECEIPTS.Dues (790 members...
...total number of students, after deducting for names inserted twice, is 1086, whereas there was a total of 1092 last year, a net loss of 6. The 1092 of 1883-84 was a loss of 4 compared with 1882-83. The most noticeable loss is in the number of undergraduates in the academical department, which is offset by the rapod growth and increase in the Sheffield Scientific School. This latter branch threaten to rival, if not to supersede, the classical college, and in the dim hereafter we may learn to speak of Yale as a scientific school with a classical...
...college if the students only gave it a proper appreciation. Everybody should do some reading; and if it be good, the more the better. He who does not read is rightly termed narrow minded. Freshmen in particular are likely to put off their initiation into the awfully complicated net-work of procedure at the library, and too often this delay extends through the sophomore and junior years, and as we have seen is not unbroken in the Senior year. This ought not to be. One of the first things a man, who wants to make as much of the advantages...