Word: investments
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...opportunity. Now if any of the university funds come up for reinvestment soon, it seems to us that the treasurer ought to consider this. One of the trustees of Yale College stated not long ago that if the college needed a dormitory and they had funds to invest, they could in no way get so high a rate of interest on their investment as by building a dormitory. And yet the rent that rooms in the dormitories bring, is very much higher here than at Yale-or in fact at any college in the country...
...himself, and actually is, pre-eminently a handicraftsman whose life is mainly spent in his workshop, and his writings and addresses are what he learns from his own work. As civilization generally has advanced, so that society has been willing to accord a true value to mechanical pursuits, and invest them with the humane Interests which they rightfully claim, and so that men follow them as intelligent men and not as the inferior drudges of society, they have been coming up into the broad light of the university and assuming the character and interest which rightly belong to them...
...editor of Progress relates a doleful experience of his as a college student: "During the brief while that I honored the University of Pennsylvania with my presence as an alleged student, it was the habit of my class and myself to invest every morning, each of us, in a quarter dollar's worth of roasted almonds, to help while away the weary hours of college life. Just before ten A. M., when the chapel bell would call us from the Continental, Girard, and other neighboring billiard saloons (the university was then on Ninth street, above Chestnut,) we would proceed...
...compilers of the Book of Sketches from the Lampoon have not published an edition of their excellent book with cloth covers. The book is worthy of a much better cover than the cheap one that adorns the present edition, and the majority of those who buy it would willingly invest a little larger sum than the price now charged for the sake of having a pretty and durable book for the library...