Word: statement
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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FINANCIAL STATEMENT OF SUPERINTENDENT (AUDITED AND APPROVED) FEB. 16, 1883.ASSETS...
...cover expenses. As the price of each book and every article of stationery is determined, relatively to the ordinary retail price, by the terms of the various agreements that have been made by the superintendent with the firms by whom we are supplied, it would require a detailed statement of these prices to show the exact advantage of the members of the society over other persons...
...Such a statement would hardly be within the scope of this report. It will be sufficient to state that the society buys as a rule at wholesale prices and in no case are the prices of the society higher than the retail market price, and in many instances they are lower in a surprising degree, as in certain cases the society has been able to make arrangements which enable it to sell at prices with which the ordinary retail dealer cannot hope to compete...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: The quality of the knowledge displayed by the "Boarder" who inquires about the "crockery assessment" item is well illustrated by his statement that "the assessment has never been less than $100." He would need to look not far among past reports, which the auditor is always ready to exhibit, to find, in fact, that the general average of the assessments is about $90, to say nothing of months in which it is considerably less than that. If he had made such an investigation he might have discovered at the same time a striking uniformity in the four...
...every line of action in contests between the two colleges, and Yale has in almost every instance bowed down to the wishes of her rival and consented to submit to her dictation. Harvard's last letter, as the Record aptly expressed it, reduces down to the statement that she is willing to do anything fair and square provided that Yale does just what she wants. Time and again has Yale given in to Harvard...