Word: offing
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At 8 o'clock this evening in Sever 11, Mr. Copeland will read scenes from the first three acts of "Hamlet." The reading will be open to members of the University only.
Tonight and next Friday night at 8 o'clock in the Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum, Professor Baker will give two lectures on "Shakepere's London," illustrating them with the stereopticon. The special subject tonight will be "The City and Westminster." In the course of his lectures, Professor Baker...
Hon. Carroll D. Wright delivered last night his last lecture in the series on "Wage Statistics," his special subject being "Real Wages in the Past Half Century." In Friday's talk the speaker had considered the statistics of real wages from the stand point of prices; in last evening's...
When the statistics of the cost of living have been perfected we shall have the best idea of real wages, for these figures would give us the most trust-worthy and accurate record of the proportion in which commodities have been consumed. Engel and Giffen have both made valuable contributions...
The speaker now turned to real wages as indicated by the variations in the purchasing power of money. In vegetable and mineral products the purchasing power has increased from thirty to forty per cent, although there has been some decline in the animal products quoted. Mr. Wright then showed his...