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...Association, which is designed to help students in the University to furnish their rooms at small cost, loans furniture at a yearly rental of 10 per cent. of its value. Every student leasing furniture is obliged to pay the yearly rent in advance, and must deposit a sum of money, ordinarily $2.50, as a partial guarantee of its return in good condition. Though the primary purpose of the Association is to be of use to students who find it necessary to exercise strict economy, any student in the University may apply for furniture...
...temporary bridge will be made of wood, at an estimated cost of about $30,000. It will be sixty feet wide, and will have a wooden leaf draw similar to the one in the present bridge. It is expected that the new bridge will be completed before the beginning of the fall College term...
...University glee, mandolin, and banjo clubs will be sold to Seniors at 75 and 50 cents at the special sale of Class Day tickets. No Senior will be allowed more than four tickets at the reduced rate. The date of the public sale of tickets, which will cost $1 or 75 cents each, will be announced later...
...second noteworthy change is found in the tendency toward individual teaching. This is a fearfully expensive improvement, and is the main reason for the increasing cost of an education in this country. But perhaps the chief evidence of progress is found in the change in the matter of discipline and the form and spirit of government in the school...
...considering the second demand of socialists, the right to work on wages, the question whether employment will be more or less regular in widely established municipal industries should be asked. In periods of depression the cost of production will necessarily be increased, and prices will remain high, when they should decrease. Men in private concerns will get less work in periods of depression, and men in public concerns more, making the difference in the distribution of wealth even greater than before...