Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Judge A. Heaton Robertson, J. H. M. Knox, LL. D., ex-President of Lafayette College; Principal Fairbairn of Mansfield College, Oxford University, England; Mr. Alfred Dale, Tutor in Trinity College, Cambridge University, England; Mr. Charles P. Clarke, President of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad; Professor E. P. McLaughlin, General Wager Swayne, New York; Mr. Newton B. Vandayer, of Williams College...
...flourish, become corrupt and perish. Men must be nominated whose careers are of the highest order and whose characters are spotless. This speaker based the greater part of his arguments upon the charge that Mr. Blaine once prostituted his office for money, when he was the owner of certain railroad bonds...
...undersigned, residents of Cambridge and patrons of the West End Railroad, most respectfully petition that the Board of Aldermen do establish an additional stopping place for the electric cars on Harvard Street between Harvard Square and Plympton, and we would respectfully ask that said stopping place be established at the Main Entrance to the College Yard - between Holyoke and Linden Streets...
Some changes were made in the accounts after July 31. On Oct. 26, 1891, it was voted to transfer the sum of $23,341.97, the net gain from sales of bonds at a profit, formerly credited to the account of Railroad Bond Premiums, to a new account to be called "Gains and Losses for General Investments." It was also voted, at this same meeting of the Corporation, to charge off to this new account $4,751.13, the sum standing to the debit of the account of Unimproved Lands in Cambridge...
...accordance with the present policy of the college of getting rid of railroad stocks, etc. and investing rather in real estate, the valuable property of the Union Institution of Savings on the corner of Washington Street and Hayward Place has recently been purchased at a net price, to the bank...