Word: risk
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...debate. In 1878, he said, the New York Clearing house refused to accept silver dollars except at their real value. A panic was only prevented by the passage of a law compelling national banks to receive the silver dollar at its face value. We ought not to run the risk of permanently impairing our credit merely for the sake of the senators who buy their seats with the silver they have made...
...three overcoats with money and valuables have been lost, and numerous towels have mysteriously disappeared. The gymnasium authorities are unable to prevent this while men leave their property scattered around so carelessly as at present. The men using the lockers must understand that they do so at their own risk and so must be cautions about leaving their valuables in them. As for the line of hooks in the main halls and bath rooms, which are generally filled with overcoats and hats, it seems that more efficient watch might be kept by the authorities to prevent pilfering. Some system...
...report has been going the rounds of the college to the effect that a costly iron fence is to be built quite around the yard. The story, we are aware, is not authoritatively told, and yet, even at the risk of being mistaken, we think it best to give the matter some attention. On a priori grounds doubtless a fence such as described would not be half a bad idea. Expecially if it served the purpose of excluding the trouble some trespasser and the abominable "mucker" we would be forced to admit it a common blessing. There seem...
...keep the present large stock of books on hand as the stock depreciates reapidly, and with present imperfect system of getting information about the number of books to be used, (implying a chance of oversupply or a lack of sufficient copies for the students of any course) the risk in this department is very great. Few are aware of the extent to which the best books now published have been offered all this year...
...keep the present large stock of books on hand as the stock depreciates rapidly, and with present imperfect system of getting information about the number of books to be used, (implying a chance of oversupply or a lack of sufficient copies for the students of any course) the risk in this department is very great. Few are aware of the extent to which the best books now published have been offered all this year...