Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Society paid, on an average, $85.30 for merchandise that it sold for $100, whereas, in 1900-01, the Society paid, on an average, $83.50 for merchandise that it sold for $100. That reduction of $1.80 on the cost of $100 of merchandise sold, was distributed as follows: $1.20 to profits, which rose from $2 90 per $100 of sales to $4.10; and $.60 to expenses, which rose from $11.80 per $100 of sales to $12.40. The increased profit arising from the fall in the average cost of the merchandise sold for $100, was thus distributed between increase of profits...
...selected by the President and Fellows f the University. The stock would be paid for by a transfer to the Corporation of the present capital and assets of the society. The stockholders would execute an instrument of trust agreeing to hold the stock not for their own personal profit but for the purpose of carrying on the business along the same general lines as at present. A board of directors similar to the present one would be chosen by the stockholders to manage the business. Tickets would be sold to the students entitling them to the same privileges and profits...
Harvard Students, you come here to be educated in the lecture-room and in the laboratory by your teachers, and to be educated by your daily life with each other; and it is a question which form will profit you more...
Concerning the selection of courses, two theories are urged. One holds that in mental education, as in physical, the weak point should be developed; the other, that the profit is greatest where the strongest interests lie. A student can hardly be expected to throw the weight of his energy into work that is odious; but he should never leave college with a gap in his mental development. Again, authorities disagree on the advisability of preparing for graduate work by the study of kindred subjects in college. In any case no greater mistake can be made than to attempt to anticipate...
Following is a statement of the condition of the Society at the close of the fiscal year June 30, 1899, compared with its condition at the close of the last fiscal year June 30, 1900: 1898 99. Assets. Liabilities. Merchandise, $29,140.75 Capital, $26,961.22 Fixtures, 815.57 Profit and Loss, 10,068.23 Cash, 5100.04 Accounts Payable, 3,098.55 Accounts Receivable, 5,071.64 -- -- $40,128.00 $40,128.00 1899-00 Assets. Liabilities. Merchandise, $35,973.74 Capital, $28,471.52 Fixtures, 2068.33 Profit and Loss, 11,297.59 Cash, 3,983.29 Accounts Payable, 7,154.89 Accounts Receivable, 4898.64 -- -- $46,924.00 $46,924.00 Stock Depreciated...