Word: netting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...meeting of the trustees of Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania, last week, President Cattell submitted the reports for 1882, showing the college to be in an excellent condition. The four years of losses, consequent upon the depression in business during 1875-79, have been regained, and the net gain during the 1882 was over $13,000. The fixed income is larger now than ever...
...appears that the total amount of the separate trust funds held by him is $686,515.84, and the income from them this year is $31,367.19. The other funds of the college, which are invested as a whole, show a total this year of $4,511,861.59 a net increase over the previous year of $278,441.34. The annual income from this general capital is $233,352.88. The rate of income for 1882-83 is likely to be below five and a half per cent. The deficit for the year in the departments dependent upon the college proper...
...direct attention," the writer concludes, "is lawn tennis. Players and manufacturers call 'rackets' 'bats.' Cricket is played with a bat, lawn tennis with a racket. 'Strokes' are often called 'points' and 'aces;' a 'service' is called a 'serve;' a 'rest' is known as a 'rally;' the 'sides' (of the net) become 'ends;' the 'striker out' is transformed into the 'non-server,' and the 'server' into the 'striker;' sometimes they are called 'hand-in' and 'hand-out,' when tennis scoring is employed, as is now universally the case. It is too much to hope that the rising generation will take...
...estimated cost of the forthcoming Science for the first year is upwards of $40,000, of which the receipts are expected to furnish $20,000, the net loss of $20,000 being considered merely a contribution to science in America, in the same manner that an endowment might be made to Harvard University for a professorship in some deparment of science...
...net gain in membership of the university for the present academic year is 71, making the entire number of students...