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...Union Rolling Mill strike at Chicago has ended in a compromise, and the furnaces start today. The strikers gained an increase of 12 to 15 per cent., but agree to work twelve hours...
...classics will take place as follows: May 6, Greek or Latin at sight; May 8, morning, Greek or Latin at sight; afternoon, translation of prescribed authors; May 29, Greek composition; May 30, Latin composition. The marks for honors will be made up as follows: Prescribed work, 10 per cent.; Greek or Latin composition, each 10 per cent.; translation at sight of Latin, 10 per cent.; translation at sight of Greek, 10 per cent.; work of freshman year, 25 per cent.; work of six hours of elective, 25 per cent...
...Lehigh Railroad has declared a quarterly dividend of 1 1/2 per cent...
There is an extraordinary diversity among Harvard instructors in their methods of marking examination papers, and in several instances they have felt impelled to declare their views and systems. One instructor has said, "60 per cent. is a very good mark," while another of equal authority and prominence has declared that 70 per cent. is merely "a defensive mark," and supports his view by giving almost all the men in his elective who do any work a mark above that limit, such marks being exceptional in the other course. Between these range numerous other instructors' views which are diverse...
...Bank of England has reduced its rate of interest to 4 per cent...