Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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...fourth of the William Belden Noble lectures last night in Brooks House. The special subject was "Ethics and Religion." Professor Palmer began by showing that in religion we have a field far more closely allied to ethics than either Law or the Fine Arts. There are, of course, certain lines of difference between them; but the first aim should be to establish their similarity...
...great thinkers, irrespective of sect or creed. Not Christ alone, but such philosophers as Spinoza have spoken of love as the supreme quality in man, and the thought has been repeated by those of later times. Now, this is quite as true in ethics as in religion; and certain religious postulates are essential to completeness in the purely ethical field...
During the last few years experience shows that nearly all the large combinations have been disposed to deal fairly with their employees. Though in several cases the number of employees of certain classes, such as the commercial travellers, has been lessened, the wages of nearly all classes have been increased in no slight degree...
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...
...these combinations is frequently an important one. Generally a new corporation must raise money by selling stock, and here the banks lend their aid by "underwriting the stock." A bank may make an agreement with the corporation to take at 50 per cent. all stock not sold by a certain time at a price above 50 per cent...