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...expenses immediately connected with the students, was about $200,000 during the year 1884-85, while the amount received from term-bills was only a little over $185,000. Formerly mortgages were an excellent form of investment for the university, but at present reliable mortgages yield scarcely 4 per cent. A considerable portion of the college funds in invested in railroad bonds. A small amount is invested in manufacturing stocks, but this is not so good a form of investment, as it yields a variable income...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Address by President Eliot before the Harvard Finance Club. | 1/6/1887 | See Source »

...some institutions in the United States which have no tuition fees, as Lehigh University in Pennsylvania. Others have very small fees. At the Institute of Technology the charges are $200 per annum. At Harvard the tuition fee is universal, while at Tufts College not more than five per cent. of the students are required to pay it. When a scholarship has the effort of bringing to the college persons who would not otherwise come, the institution is the gainer by the amount of his tuition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Address by President Eliot before the Harvard Finance Club. | 1/6/1887 | See Source »

...discount of 11 per cent. allowed to all members of the Co-operative Society at Ray's, Men's furnishing goods store, corner West and Washington streets, Boston. Full dress shirts in stock and to measure, dress bows, gloves, studs and buttons...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Special Notices. | 1/5/1887 | See Source »

...week! Ladies or gentlemen desiring pleasant profitable employment write at once. We want you to handle an article of domestic use that recommends itself to every one at sight. Sample as flour. Sells like hot cakes. Profits 300 per cent. Families wishing to practice economy should for their own benefit write for particulars. Used every day the year round in every household. Price within reach of all. Circulars free. Agents receive sample free. Address, Domestic Manufacturing Company, Marion, Ohio...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Special Notices. | 1/5/1887 | See Source »

...week! Ladies or gentlemen desiring pleasant profitable employment write at once. We want you to handle an article of domestic use that recommends itself to every one at sight. Sample as flour. Sells like hot cakes. Profits 300 per cent. Families wishing to practice economy should for their own benefit write for particulars. Used every day the year round in every household. Price within reach of all. Circulars free. Answers receive sample free. Address, Domestic Manufacturing Company, Marion, Ohio...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/4/1887 | See Source »

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