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Coupon bonds are issued in denominations as low as $50 and as high as $1000. Registered bonds range from $100 to $100,000. The bonds may be paid for under the following government regulations: 2 percent. with the application, 18 per cent. on June 28, 20 percent. on July 20, 30 percent. on August 15, and 30 percent. and accrued interest on August 30. For a $50 bond it will therefore only be necessary to pay $1 down, $9 in the first instalment, and $10, $15, and $15 in the other three instalments respectively, the last of which...
...Sargent points out, if men are to serve and not handicap the army, they must be physically fit to stand up under the strain of first-line service; and participation in athletics is the best way to keep fit. The case of those physically unfit to serve--75 percent. of the student body, says Dr. Sargent--is even more serious. However, it is not too late to mend, and Harvard may well take Dr. Sargent's message to heart...
...HAVEN, CONN., Jan. 18, 1917.--A straw vote held at Yale today in regard to universal compulsory military training in the United States resulted in a poll of 1400 votes. Eighty percent of these, 1,112, were in favor of some form of universal training...
...Phillips has found out that while the percentage of Harvard graduates marrying remained nearly constant at 75, the number of children born per married graduate dropped from 3.13 for the eight classes from 1853 to 1860 to 2.06 for the ten classes from 1881 to 1890. The percent of childless marriages rose from 7.8 in the first group to 23.4 in the last. For this second group the number of children per graduate stands at 1.55, and almost exactly the same figures are true for Yale...
...annual dividend for the fiscal year 1915-16 will be made tomorrow form 9 to 12 o'clock at the cashier's office in the main store. Two rates of dividends have been declared one of a nine per cent on cash purchases and the other of seven percent on credit purchases. This has been the largest year's business in the Society's history, and the total amount to be paid will be $16,614, which is an increase of $1,538 over the amount paid a year...