Word: investment
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...influence to bring it about. The lowest rates were taken as a basis for the whole scale of transportation. The example which Illinois set in this matter was followed by other states as Wisconsin in 1884. The result was very disastrous, and foreign capital was no longer willing to invest in the railroads of those sections...
...junior class of Cornell have decided to invest a surplus of $50 accruing from the class ball in a gold medal. The medal is to be known as the Eighty-eight Junior Ball Committee Medal, and is to be competed for annually. The winner, who is to be the best general athlete, holds the medal until the contest of the following year when he delivers it to the athletic council, and the council again awards it to the successful athlete of that year. The medal is a fine one, and will be finished in a few days...
...successors and assigns forever, absolutely and in fee, but in trust, nevertheless, to and for the uses and purposes herein set fourth, and declared of and concerning the same viz: The said president and fellows are to take and receive said property and estates, and to hold, manage, and invest the same according to their best judgement and discretion, taking care, however, to keep said property and estates as a distinct and separate investment apart from all other investments made and held by them, so that the amount and kind of property and estates held in trust under this will...
...rather overdoing it to constantly keep calling attention to the Co-operative Society, but the reluctance to join of the students who have remained non-members, necessitates another appeal for support. That only ten men out of several hundred non-members should have considered it worth their while to invest a dollar and a half apiece in an enterprise where the returns will so much more than repay them, shows how indifferent to money matters a large portion of our college community is. Moreover, the promise of the management that, in case this necessary money should be raised, the society...
...White, whose work on "Rythmic and Metric" is the basis of Mr. Jebb's metrical criticisms. In the appendix are notes on the Harvard performance of the play of which Mr. Jebb says "The thorough scholarship, the archeological knowledge and the artistic skill which presided over that performance invest the record of it with a permanent value for every student of the play." The thorough scholarship and the peculiar interest of this volume to Harvard men should make it a popular one here. The need of a library edition of the Greek tragedians has long been felt...