Word: stock
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...motion was passed, empowering the board of directors to prepare complete plans for the reorganization and incorporation of the society, and the transfer of its assets to the corporation thus formed, and the vesting of the stock of the corporation in a staple board of directors. The plan drawn up by the board will be submitted to a vote of the members of the society by the Australian ballot system...
This plan provides, for the organization of a corporation to carry on the business of the society. This corporation would be capitalize at about $25,000, and the stock would be held by ten or more stockholders to be selected by the President and Fellows f the University. The stock would be paid for by a transfer to the Corporation of the present capital and assets of the society. The stockholders would execute an instrument of trust agreeing to hold the stock not for their own personal profit but for the purpose of carrying on the business along the same...
...operative dividends this year amount to $8,692.55, as against $6,894.36 paid last year. The society, in its Cambridge and Boston departments, is now carrying a stock valued at $50,000, which is somewhat larger than ever before. The Cambridge department now has in service a horse and wagon...
...heritage of Labiche has been divided among M. Georges Feydeau, M. Gandillot, M. Alexandre Bisson, and M. Courteline. Of these, Courteline seems to have the most talent. He is a writer of considerable power, with a copious and spontaneous wit. The military officer is one of his stock characters, but he has not the tact, according to M. Deschamps, to treat him with the dignity due him as the protector of his country. "Les Gaietes de l'Escadron" is an excellent parody -- albeit full of philosophy--on the less attractive sides of military life. "Le Train de 8:47," "Boubonroche...
...Cavalier," a novel by Albert E> Hancock, Ph.D., '97, will be issued during the coming spring by the Macmillan Company. The book deals with the life of the Southern aristocracy, during the reconstruction period which followed the Civil War. The hero, a young Virginia planter of Bourbon stock, enlists in the Confederate army, and after the surrender at Appomattox returns home, still unbeaten in spirit, with the hope of restoring the fortunes of his house. The author, though a northerner always takes the point of view of the southern cavalier, and thus presents a sympathetic picture of that period, when...