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...Percent of Value Per Net Deb of Assessed Capita City (000) Property Debt...
...probably worthwhile for the summer school student, prone to behind-the-napkin whispering at the Union on the slowness of service and lack of desert-talent among the cook-force, to ponder on these early battles in the cause of wholesome, 100-percent edible eatables. The first head of the college, the wicked Mr. Eaton mentioned last time, fed his long-suffering students, according to contemporary accounts, "hasty pudding with goat's dung in it, and mackerel served with their guts in them." Before skipping this plainspoken, if indelicate piece of seventeenth-century realism the early prevalence of Hasty pudding...
...single space on the building of not more than 24 sq. ft. "On the question of litter, there is no doubt that the habits of the public have greatly improved, but they are a long way from perfection. ... On the London General omnibuses I have observed that only five percent of the passengers make use of the receptacles provided for used tickets. . . . What we must do is raise the public standard of manners so that people will instinctively be tidy and no one will ever come away from a picnic without clearing up every fragment...
Although rooms in the Yard have not been reduced because they are on a pro-rata basis and only the House rooms were affected by the 12 and one-half percent reduction in April, the board in the Union has been set at $8 instead of $9 for last year...
...goes sour. Morgan & Co.'s net profits on bonds are due to having fewer losses than most houses. In the last 14 years, Morgan & Co. has headed syndicates which distributed $6,000,000,000 worth of bonds. Of these $2,000,000,000 have already been repaid. Forty percent of all their foreign bonds have been repaid. Of the balance 30% were selling, last week, above the offering price. Only in railroad bonds, heavily supervised by the U. S. Government, was there a bad showing...