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Secondly, taking the price of $4.58 as correct, is there anything wrong in the monthly statements, or is there an indication of an exceedingly high price for the month of March? I believe there is nothing wrong in the monthly statements. It should be remembered that no separate report for January has ever been got out. As a fact, it is easily shown from the figures used by the auditor in computing the price for this term, that the cost of board for January, and the few days of December which come into this term, was more than...
...pity if the directors should be compelled, by such action on the part of a few men, to return to the old, unpleasant system of locks and latch-keys. The fault is probably the result of oversight and we have no doubt that a word will be sufficient to correct...
...used to conceal the real weight of the duty from those who are unacquainted with the values of the dutiable articles. The ad valorem duties are theoretically more equal and just, but yet the tendency of all countries is to drop them. The faults found are: The difficulty of correct judgment by custom officers; the danger of fraud in concealing the true value; the competition of different ports in order to obtain more trade by appraising he goods lower. In this country, the lecturer explained, the ad valorem duties was the system sought by free traders in preference to specific...
...boats were started by the sterns. So far the correspondent's information is correct; but they were judged by the bows at the finish, and it is in this fact that the kernel of the whole matter lies. It was generally understood by the Harvard crew as they drew up to the stake boat that the boats were to start by sterns and finish by sterns, but a remark from Captain Hull before starting undeceived them, and the time was actually taken as the bows crossed the finish. Now, considering the closeness of the race...
...betrays any considerable ignorance in common things, but the following perhaps is an example of this class. One man wants to know "when and where originated the expression 'All England for a Horse'?" Someone of a kindly spirit and better knowledge of Shakespeare, has appended to the card the correct quotation and its source. One may usually be expected to judge that the questioner is especially interested in the subject on which his query is made. And if this is true, the man who asks the following is to be congratulated by his friends. He enquires : "What is the origin...