Word: tenant
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...custom of students as well as of citizens has been transferred to Boston. Only recently a tradesmen occupying a store under one of the college buildings has failed and gone out of business from lack of custom. Another such store has for six months remained without a tenant. These are signs of the closer connection coming about between the two cities...
Last week when a student who rooms in one of the down-town blocks was coming out of his room he was stopped by the excited tenant of the room next to his, who wanted to know if he kept a telegraphic instrument in his room. On being answered in the negative the afore-mentioned tenant became still more excited and told a long story about hearing some one telegraphing, apparently inside the wall. He had noticed it several times, and, being somewhat of an operator, had even made out to read parts of the message, but could make...
...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 capital. The interest on capital invested in land...
...janitor will spend his whole time from 7.15 A.M. until 6.30 P.M., except an hour for dinner, in or about the building. - He will keep the building free from beggars, pedlers, traders, and all other objectionable persons, and will admit no one to a tenant's room without an order from the tenant. He will take from the tenants orders for repairs and give them promptly to the Superintendent, and notify the Superintendent of any thing about the building which needs his attention. He will keep the steps free from snow and ice. He will light...
...scout services" he may charge the tenants not exceeding twenty dollars each a year where two tenants in a room employ him, and not exceeding twenty-five dollars a year where only one tenant in a room employs...