Word: renting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...highest rent paid for a room in the new dormitory at Williams, Morgan Hall, including heat, is $180. - [HARVARD HERALD. High enough, in all conscience. Six months on a western ranche would benefit immensely the soft occupant of such a room. - [Notre Dame Scholastic...
...Francis A. Walker delivered the first of his series of lectures on "Land Tenure" last night in Sever 11. The lecture was devoted to a statement of the origin of rent and its influence on the distribution of wealth. Gen. Walker held, of course, to the regular theory of diminishing returns, and showed that rent depended on the excess of production of the land over the production of the worst land in cultivation; that is, of the land which paid no rent. "Rent," he said, "arises from the fact of the varying degrees of production mutually contributing to the same...
...lecturer, describing the influence of rent on the distribution of wealth. said that rent did not affect the customer, in that it did not affect the price of food, and moreover did not affect the wages of the laborer, understanding laborer in the English sense, as the man who tilled the soil under the payment of the tenant farmer. The laborer's wages were regulated by the supply and demand of labor. The theory of rent could not apply to capital invested in improvements on land. There was no rent paying land, but there was not any no-interest paying...
...highest rent paid for a room in the new dormitory at Williams, Morgan Hall, including heat...
Wanted-To purchase or rent a tennis court. Address 47 Thayer...