Word: rates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That the committee has been successful in its initial three years is shown by the list of firms on its subscription list. Although the annual rate of $100 materially limits the number of subscribers, the Statistical Service is now taken by nearly 300 individuals, firms and corporations, representing the leading manufacturing, commercial and financial interests of the United States...
...rate, the completion of the Endowment Fund has seemed to lag deplorably in the past few months, while ambitious statesmen have lured the shekels of their supporters into their campaign officers. The drive which was inaugurated last fall with a goal of fifteen millions seems to have lost its velocity upon reaching the twelve-million mark...
Another awful thought. Suppose that some fortunate Colgate alumni possess girths of less than the 30-inch norm. Will the Committee feel itself bound to reimburse such men for their shortcomings at the rate of $5 for each inch of deficiency? We hardly think so. If they did, we might see an alarming increase in the number of Colgate alumni to be found among the Living Skeletons and the Human Matchsticks at the circus. Colgate may need the money; but a surtax on waistlines is a dangerous way to raise...
...modern French and other foreign literature, Professor Roy K. Hack of the Department of the Classics, is to make a trip abroad this summer and in behalf of the Library Committee purchase a number of foreign works of fiction and books on other subjects. With the present exchange rate, it is expected that the library will be one of the most complete of its kind in this country in that field...
...account of the steady advances in the cost of operation during the past year, it was voted at the meetings of the Governing Board and of the Undergraduate Committee to raise the annual membership fee from the present rate of $5.00 to $7.50. During the academic year 1921-1922 it is planned to make another increase, to $10.00. However, members who join next year at the $7.50 rate will be required to pay only that sum throughout their college course, regardless of later increases in the membership...