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Generally, in order to attract capital from men of wealth, who want sure, safe, investments, a new concern issues preferred stock. The condition attached to this stock is that a certain fixed dividend be paid on the preferred stock before the holders of 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...
...point of view of the so-called Latin races of Europe. He fails to take into account the transformation the ideas of that culture must undergo in assimilation by minds of a different civilization and nationality whose traditions and habits are absolutely foreign. Under his new system the certain dignity in books, the certain Latin habit of mind brought to their composition would be more than ever lost...
Like the Harvard houses, which have their own individual reputations, the co-ops have been known to attract a certain type of person. Most of the stereotypes held by students about co-op life are generally tied to the Dudley Co-op, which is farther away from the Square...
Wichert's farce, "Als Verlobte Empfehlen Sich," was presented at last night's meeting of the Deutscher Verein in Roberts Hall. In spite of a certain stiffness in the acting, the comedy was given very successfully. The cast of characters was as follows: Frau von Grvmbach, P. G. Robinson '03. Malwina, her daughter, F. Watson '02. Franz Von Grumbach, Malwina's cousin, H. J. Davenport '00. Adelheid Hopfstengel, Malwina's governess, E. B. Ahlborn '02. Andreas Sangerhaus, the steward, A. N. Fuller '00. Maid, A. Drinkwater...
Most reform movements are started by groups of a few men. There is a great danger in this fact, though it is one not easy to perceive. When the standard, the ideal, is set by a group, it is certain to be lower than when upheld by an individual, and the public, seeing a spirit of compromise in the new organization, at once loses all faith in it. Here we have the secret of the failure of many such enterprises, and it is hard to blame any one for it. Indeed, the claim is made that a practical politician, though...