Word: renting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...dormitory at Tufts is divided into apartments of three rooms each, a sitting room, bed room and bathroom, the rent for all of which...
...sophomores of Columbia College have agreed to rent their shell to the 'Varsity crew for the rest of rowing season...
...interesting argument on the proposition that the source of business profits is in the intellectual abilities of each business man himself, that the more successful any man may be in business schemes and in business transactions, the larger will his profits be. Mr. Walker makes profits analogous to rent. Rent is the difference between the productive power of any given lot of land and the worst piece of land that it pays to cultivate; and so profit is the difference between the net assets of any business firm and the surplus of an employer of the lowest possible grade obtained...
...School is now in the middle of its fifth year of work, with increased numbers and with every prospect of increasing usefulness. Up to this time it has occupied a hired house, and has been entirely supported by the annual contributions of twelve or fourteen colleges, from which house rent, the appropriation of the library, and incidental expenses have been paid, each college in turn sending a professor to Athens as director for one year without expense to the School. Under this temporary arrangement the School has already done much good work, which has been cordially recognized both at home...
...average price of room rent at Princeton...