Word: pay
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...more elective courses. This offering of elective courses. This offering of elective courses with Harvard teaching remains the peculiar distinction of Radcliffe, and endowment, says the report, for this purpose is always the supremely useful gift to the college. The endowment should eventually be so large that Radcliffe may pay properly for a Harvard professor's time...
...Lewis opened the argument for the negative. The plan proposed by the affirmative, he said, is wrong and unjustifiable, in that it compels three classes of society to contribute to the support of one and compels workingmen to pay to the government part of their earnings to be refunded when officials see fit to do so. This places too much power, which is liable to be abused, in the hands of officials, and tends to discourage self-initiative on the part of workingmen...
...have proposed a change which will, if put into operation decrease the cost of general board. Under the present system the cost of service in the dining room and kitchen is shared equally by the members of the Association. The change proposed is that a slight charge, sufficient to pay for their cooking, be added to the price of all articles not on the free list. The present system does not work equitably to the man who eats less than his share of articles not on the free list, whereas the proposed change would distribute the cost of extra service...
...present system, with its perpetual franchises, at market value, which is $509,000,000; and secondly because the city would have to allow for depreciation out of the earnings of the system. He pointed out the fact that the present owners do not do this, but pay for depreciation by selling stocks and bonds, a policy which the city could not pursue without continually increasing its debts...
...speaker used a chart to show that the city would have to pay out annually for interest, sinking fund, and depreciation over $42,000,000. But as the net earnings of the roads are only $22,000,000 the city would have to face a net loss of $20,000,000 each year...