Word: profit
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...regard to assessments, such as the one in 1888, following the reduction of the membership fee from $2.50 to $1.50, Superintendent Lyford states that unless some wholly improbable catastrophy should befall the institution it will never be necessary to call on the profit sharers again. The Co-operative has unlimited credit, owns its own stock, and has paid all bills due. Moreover the business has been constantly widening although it is not the aim of the society to compete for the patronage of people unconnected with the University. Not a little wholesale trade has grown up through orders from western...
...opens for this year, the series of entertainment's that are so prominent among the advantages offered by this university. Professor Royce's thorough knowledge of the subject on which he is to speak and his interest in it cannot fail to make the voluntary course a source of profit and enjoyment to every one who follows it. The advanced student in philosophy need hardly be urged to be present. It may, however, be well to remind others that these lectures will afford every one a clear and summarized knowledge of a largely discussed subject of thought...
...pass any examination subsequent to admission, and is subject to no supervision whatever, being supposed to be of an age to look after himself. The college special student, on the other hand, is admitted only after satisfying a committee of the faculty of his competency to pursue with profit the college courses, is required to attend regularly the college exercises and pass the same examinations as regular students, and is subject to a stricter supervision than any other body of students at the University. By a rule of the Committee on Athletics, in order to play on an athletic team...
...hour is not over till the bell rings. The last few minutes of the hour sometimes contain the pith of the lecture. It is not only boyish, but inconsiderate and ill-bred to prevent men who have gone to the lecture for the purpose of hearing it from profiting by those last few minutes. But more than this; it is in the highest degree rude and ungentlemanly to interrupt the instructor in any way while he is speaking. This is the A B C of manners and it would seem hardly necessary to call any man's attention...
Western railroad stocks represented at first a certain profit to the stock holders but the actual money received did not amount to much. The stockholders of western roads have little by little grown to be eastern men, and thus it is that stockholders and the actual running and controlling powers have separated-a state of affairs which cannot fail to be disastrous. The bond holders are the real owners of western railroads...