Word: stockes
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...known as "Jimmy" G. L. Yocum '07 Joshua Phineas Brown, who has just made a "million" F. Taft '07 Knight Byrd, a sport, also an old college chum of Jimmy's J. T. Houghton '08 Wright Moran Moore, reporter for the "Howl" C. N. Eaton '08 Vandeventer Parks, a stock manipulator S. Crowell '09 Selum Short, a broker H. B. Sheahan '09 Francis Parks, daughter of Vandeventer Parks R. D. Murphy '08 Estrella Flushing, hotel clerk and stenographer L. M. Potter '08 Bell-boys at Hotel St. Reckless J. R. Benton '08 S. T. Bittenbender '09 P. C. Haskell...
...eighteenth century, the first evidence of stock-companies appeared, and these were developed rapidly. The wealthy middle-class in the time of Louis XVI were occupied mainly in obtaining judicial or financial employments in departments, the capital of which was valued at about 1600 millions of dollars, and all of which was lost in the Revolution. The dominating character of all large fortunes in France was the dependence on State institutions, which was politically and economically a fault. Idle money was increased, while money actively engaged in the building up of wealth was diminished. Today these conditions are reversed...
Both the women's parts were unusually well done. A. B. Kuttner '08 as Dorothea, an amorous and coquettish lady of 35 or 40 years, makes an individual and rather pleasing person out of this stock figure, and with Bastelmeier makes a distinct hit in one of the most difficult scenes of the play. As Franziska, Dorothea's neice, T. W. Knauth 07 makes a charming ingenue, and is more than ordinarily successful in creating an illusion of womanliness...
...with random carelessness and sent to the paper before the real millionaire arrives. Joshua P. Brown, of course, quickly dethrones Jimmy; but the letter has already done its work and Vanderventer Parks, the father of Frances Parks, "Jimmy's" flancee, is almost ruined by the consequent drop of the stock in his company. At this discovery the hero at once writes another letter, booming the stock which formerly had fallen so low, and again signs the initials which are at once his own and the millionaire's. The last letter to the paper has the effect of making Vanderventer Parks...
...twenty years from its numerous thrashings on the river and on the football field? Is the College any better for them? Are the alumni or the students any better for them? Isn't it a good time to do as the merchant does annually: take an account of stock and ascertain if the business pays? The various crews and teams have got some exercise. The men who composed them have got some social prestige and popular notoriety, and the undergraduates some lung-exercise and some disappointments. But has this result been worth what it has cost? The money cost alone...