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...banquet will be open to every member of the University. The price per plate is $1.50. All, not members of class debating clubs or the University Debating Club, who wish to attend the banquet, may do so after signing a blue book at Leavitt and Pierce's. Return postals have been sent to members of the debating clubs and it is desired that they be promptly answered. The invited guests will be: The members of the University teams; Mr. R. C. Surbridge '89; the coach, Mr. W. S. Youngmen '95; Dean Briggs; Professor Baker; Mr. Winter; Mr. A. P. Stone...
California has 3,000 students enrolled, showing an increase of 400 per cent in the last ten years...
...speaker now turned to real wages as indicated by the variations in the purchasing power of money. In vegetable and mineral products the purchasing power has increased from thirty to forty per cent, although there has been some decline in the animal products quoted. Mr. Wright then showed his own tables which give the increase in the purchasing power of gold and the decrease in that of silver. But in reality the increase in the laborer's gross earnings has been to a great extent curtailed by reason of the expenses resulting from the improvements in his condition...
...published in 1885, shows the range of prices from 1839 to 1884 and makes the statement in his introduction, that the condition of the workingman has improved vastly, since the purchasing power of money has doubled and he is earning an increase in wages of from forty to sixty per cent. Comparing the dates 1839 and 1884 further, he shows that in the former time an English laborer had 15 shillings left after paying his rent while in the latter year he would have 27 shillings...
...University will begin on Monday, October 8. Cups will be offered as prizes. Bluebooks for entries have been placed at Leavitt's and at Sanborn's, and will be kept open until Saturday night, October 6. The entry fees will be $1.00 for singles, and 50 cents per man for doubles...