Word: actions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...some extent by the reforms and innovations introduced at other colleges. The progress of the movement towards co-education at Columbia, therefore, has been watched with interest by all Harvard men. How far the step Columbia has taken, slight as it is, though containing the germs of future action of greater extent, is of any general significance it is impossible to say. The board of trustees has decided that although it is inexpedient to admit women into the regular classes with young men, and the college is not in a financial condition to warrant it in expending sufficient money...
...government was pressed for money, and a general system of internal taxation was determined upon and put into action by the bill of this year. Mr. Morrill, in order to compensate for this tax upon the people, proposed a bill, which was passed, raising the tariff rate. Two years later the great "Tariff Act of 1864" was passed, which is said to be the largest financial transaction in the world's history. Internal taxes were considerably raised, and tariff duties were made much larger than ever before...
...continuance of these duties. As a result several new industries, notably the manufacture of silk, have arisen, which would be ruined at once if a sudden lowering were made in the tariff on these articles. As these investments were made in good faith, justice demands that no sudden action be taken looking toward abolition of duties on these articles, but that the duties be lowered gradually...
...military display attendant upon commencement day is in danger of being cut off by action of the Massachusetts Legislature. One member said that such payment, which had averaged $641 for fourteen years, was a useless expense, and one of those extravagances that, in accordance with the recommendation of the governor, ought to be cut off. Thereupon another stated that the matter was one that directly concerned the governor, who is commander-in-chief of the militia, and that Massachusetts had some pride in maintaining its dignity, for which it was willing to incur some expense. The report of the committee...
...look on it simply as a pleasant recreation and so think it unnecessary to practice more than semi-occasionally. Conscientious training is as necessary to success in lacrosse as it is in base-ball and rowing, for the game requires great powers of endurance as well as precision of action. We hope that the work during the coming season will necessitate no criticism on this score...