Word: rate
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...floor with fire-proof stairs and partitions at the east end; also for cold-storage and electric-lighting plants, and for ventilation of the kitchen, and to charge interest upon these advances from the end of the current financial year upon the standing debt of the association, at the rate of four and a half per cent a year...
...might produce a very serious situation, as the ends and backs material depends upon a very few men, with little or no reserve to draw on. Campbell, Bowditch, Ristine, J. L. Motley, Morse, Clark and MacDonald constitute the end material, but only the first two are of first rate ability. If they are carefully handled and kept free from injuries, the ends will be as strong as usual. This will be especially true of Bowditch, for he is a most exceptional player...
Thus exorbitant rates of interest amounting in many cases to one hundred percent for a two months' loan, are extorted: and the lender evades the provisions of $3 of Chapter 77. "When there is no agreement for a different rate, the interest of money shall be at the rate of six dollars upon each hundred dollars for a year, but it shall be lawful to pay, reserve, or contract for any rate of interest or of discount: but no greater rate than that before mentioned shall be recovered in any action, unless the agreement to pay such greater rate...
...able to spend Saturday evening and all day Sunday at home and return for an evenings' work after a good rest. Under the present scheme, if one intends to accomplish work in the Library, he might as well not leave Cambridge at all. This is the case at any rate with the man who lives any great distance out of town. Personally, I have been very much exasperated very often by the present system and I feel sure that this has been the case with others...
...serious questions about the Law School arise from its prosperity and success. It has more than four times the number of students it had fifteen years ago; and its Library is growing, and threatens to continue to grow, at the rate of more than 6,000 volumes a year. An immediate enlargement of the building is imperatively demanded; and in planning that enlargement it seems to be necessary to took forward to a Law Library of more than 100,000 volumes within ten years. Financially, the School is able to provide both the building and the books; but it would...