Word: rates
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...nevertheless, contains much useful information. The first thing of interest which attracts attention, is the sum of the total invested property of the university, which is placed at $4,803.-938, 36, against $4,623, 895, 57 for the year proceeding. The income was $241, 825, 32, at the rate of the general investments by far the larger part of 5.17 per cent. This is a falling off in rate from the year before partly caused by delays in changing the investments. The total expenses or 1883-1884 in all departments were nearly three quarters of a million dollars...
...Free Trade and Protection. Now, last year, students taking Political Economy, and especially members of the elementary course, Political Economy 1, derived great pleasure and profit from the lectures given under the auspices of the Finance Club. The lecture by Mr. Edward Atkinson on the subject, "What makes the Rate of Wages," and that by Mr. Gamaliel Bradford, on "Political Economy as a College Study," were especially interesting and valuable to the large number of beginners in the study of Political Economy. Why could not a few lectures on important questions of the day in Political Science be given this...
Second under-graduate : "Oh, yes! first-rate."-(Punch...
...very satisfactory, and a committee of undergraduates was selected to draw up a new scheme for ranking, to be submitted to the faculty. This committee did its work so well that their report was substantially adopted by the governing board, and the students are now happy, or at any rate happier than before, for it is said that no set of rules for ranking could be framed which would please...
...students in college little realize what a priceless boon has been extended to them. A firm has been established in Chicago known as the "Student's Literary Bureau," whose object will be to write "essays, orations and poems on every conceivable subject or theme." The terms are at the rate of one dollar for a single oration or essay. It is to be hoped that the firm will not be favored with many calls from this quarter.- (Amherst Student...