Word: borrower
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1900-1909
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Dining Association. This, as its name implies, is not a corporation doing business as a cafe, but an association of students for the purpose of deriving the advantages of cooperation in obtaining board. It is not capitalized and does not own property. On the contrary, it is obliged to borrow money at interest to pay for its plant and the regular bills incurred. This money, instead of being borrowed from banks, is obtained from the Corporation of the University as a regular investment. The fallacy of the Illustrated Magazine's position appears when it calls the plant, bought with...
...that he was but the first of its many benefactors. The importance of his gift, however, may be estimated from the fact that although the General Court had appropriated $2000 for the College, it was not paid, and the Court was so poor that it was forced to borrow $1000 of Harvard's bequest...
...number is varied and by no means uninteresting, but in general not well written. The Monthly has been accused of rating style too high. No such charge can be maintained against a magazine that uses the words "donate," "novelize," and "enthuse," and (to borrow its own phrase) "cares not a hang...
...letter sent to all members of the Union, the Library Committee has requested co-operation in an attempt to check the systematic borrowing or stealing of books which has taken place this year. Of actual thefts no comment is necessary other than the expression of a hope that the perpetrators will eventually be ascertained. The individuals, however, who borrow or hide books which are much in demand may be amenable to reason and to a recognition of the rights of fellow members. Recently a certain book was prescribed in Philosophy E. Immediately the volume disappeared from the library...
...Middle Ages there was no great system of property owning, whereby a man could borrow money on security, but rather a universal pawn-system, in which money was obtained by pawning farm products, etc. It was an essential for each small householder to keep a hoard of money to meet expenses, whereas, today, wealth may be obtained solely on credit. It is an interesting fact that we have but three times as much money in circulation, nowadays, as at the time of Louis XVI, while we are seven or eight times as rich...