Word: rates
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...needs $26,050 more to complete its quota. The Junior Class has shown no marked progress and has yet to subscribe 73 per cent of its assigned quota of $21,000. The prescribed amount for the Sophomore Class has been approached to within $4,100 and at the present rate of advance 1921 will be over the top Thursday night. The Senior Class quota is now over subscribed $3,550. Though the loan is progressing nearly according to schedule five-sixths of the University undergraduates have failed to co-operate in the drive...
...drapery of his couch about him. Moreover, "wives of the professors will mend clothes and sew on buttons free." Why wives? If daughters of the professors could be drafted for this activity, supported if need be by young society girls whose war work is now ending, the marriage rate of Massachusetts would go up with a bound, and there would be less complaint in future about race suicide in our educated class. New York Times...
...Rate of Interest Higher Than Before...
Last spring, $67,850 was subscribed to the Third Liberty Loan by undergraduates of the University, and the Committee hopes that even more will be raised this year. The loan, as recently announced by Secretary Glass, will be for $4,500,000,000, all oversubscriptions to be rejected. The rate of interest, 4 3-4 per cent, will be higher than in any of the previous loans...
During the last loan the Harvard Committee did splendid work in getting a large number of applications, and in view of the attractive rate of interest which is now offered by the Government we are counting once again on the active co-operation of all undergraduates. Perhaps no one in the country knows the results of over confidence better than the college man. Many and many and athletic victory has been turned into defeat from this cause. It is therefore vital to remember that even in spite of the reduction in the amount from six billion dollars to four...