Word: nets
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...yards run, 440 yards run, 880 yards run, running high jump, standing high jump, fence vault, pole vault, running high kick, putting 16 pound shot, 220 yards hurdle race, half mile walk. The prizes are given by the Boston Athletic Association, and the entire net proceeds are for the benefit of the Interscholastic Association. The following schools will participate in the above events: English High, Boston Latin, Nichols, Noble, Roxbury Latin, Worcester Academy, Hopkinson, Hale. Admission 25 cents. Reserved seats 25 cents extra. Tickets for sale at the Boston Athletic club house, and at Thayer's ticket office Parker House...
...annual register of the Columbia Law school has just appeared. Its total number of matriculates shows a net decrease of thirty. The junior class has two hundred and thirty-two, an increase of eight over last year, but the middle class has only one hundred and five. Last year the second year class was known as the senior and it numbered two hundred and forty-three. There is no senior class this year as the present middle class is the first for which a three-year curriculum was made compulsory. Of the college graduates in the school Columbia leads with...
...Harvard Co-operative society called by the directors, came to order last night at 7.30, Professor Ames of the Law school in the chair. Professor Ames stated that the object of the meeting was to settle the question of dividends. Last year, $1493, amounting to two thirds of the net profit, was distributed among 771 members; this summer the dividends were computed on the same two thirds basis, and the books showed that $2150 was to be divided among 621 members. This fall it was found that the stock had increased, and that although the full dividends could be paid...
...saving under another form. The old system, it was complained, kept the supply of ready money short, and unnecessarily irritated the Cambridge tradesmen. It was therefore proposed to raise prices almost to the outside level, in order that the society might carry a larger and better stock; and the net surplus for the year was to be distributed in dividends. There is no reason why this should not be a better plan than the old one. As the result of its actual working under the present management, we have this year a poor stock, high prices, and no dividends after...