Word: toward
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...wealthier parents for their pay. There are now one hundred and twenty thousand children in school and the teachers are paid regular salaries of a very high average. In short, order has been substituted for chaos, and the educational system of Cuba is well on the road toward efficiency...
...coaching thus far has consisted mainly in an endeavor to remedy ragged blade work and to get the different crews as near a unit as possible. There have been encouraging signs of improvement among all the crews, but any marked advance toward finished work is hardly to be expected so early in the season. Donovan at the Weld and Vail at the Newell have done practically all the coaching, although the graduate coaches, Mr. J. J. Storrow '85, Mr. G. S. Mumford '87 and Mr. H. W. Keyes '87, will assist in coaching as soon as the launches are ready...
...common stock receive any advantage from the profit. Although the common stock is speculative in character it is frequently more remunerative than preferred stock as is seen at present in the case of the American Sugar Refining Company. The proportion of capital of the large combinations, which goes toward the cost of their promotion is an immense item. The amount which goes into the pockets of promoters and bankers for floating the organization varies from 20 to 60 per cent. of the total capital invested. Capitalists say, however, that such remuneration is not excessive, for men with reputation for business...
...plan has been made by graduates connected with the musical interests of the University to form a chorus of ten or fifteen men to go abroad this summer. The plan has received the provisional approbation of the Faculty, and the initial steps toward carrying out the idea will be taken at once. The object of the trip is primarily to secure for the men taken the exceptional musical and social advantages offered by such a trip. The chorus will give concerts, but merely for the purpose of paying expenses, as the trip is not to be in any sense...
...stop here, however, for in all probability a race will be obtained with the second University crews of some of the prominent rowing colleges, which will take place about the end of May. If this plan is faithfully and energetically carried out it should go far toward establishing the clubs on a firm basis...