Word: allowables
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Dilemma: A lady has her portrait painted. When the portrait is finished, she pays the artist his fee, say $10,000. But, since she feels that he has not done justice to her appearance, the lady allows the artist to take back the picture for improvement. Having "improved" it, the artist returns the painting-together with his bill for, say, $7,000. Should the lady pay the bill or allow the artist...
...French corporation. The United States protested, however, against "the establishment in Haiti of a monopoly which excluded American enterprise" and declared the contract "disastrous to the sovereignty of Haiti and unjust in its operations in regard to the people and Government of Haiti." The French Company agreed to allow a group of American bankers, headed by the National City Bank of New York, to subscribe to 8,000 out of 40,000 shares. Despite the official protest of the United States the contract provisions in regard to Haiti were never changed...
...first reason ascribed for intervention was humanitarianism of a Whitman's-burden nature; conditions in Haiti were bad; "anarchy, savagery and repression" prevailed, and troops went in to clean up. Second, the State Department had been pressed not only to protect American interests already in Haiti but to allow these interests--notably the National City Bank--to, extend their activities. Last, we did not want any foreign power intervening in a land that was so near the Panama Canal; the Monroe Doctrine, as it had been reedited, covered any action on the part of a foreign country to protect...
...Freshmen and Sophomores in the Engineering School, in relation to the House Plan is an eminently fair and judicial settlement of a difficult situation insofar as the members of the first two classes are concerned. It is very unfortunate however that this decision was not reached in time to allow Juniors to apply for rooms in the new House units. The Juniors are in every way as much entitled to consideration under the circumstances which led President Lowell to change the policy in regard to Engineering Students, as are the Sophomores and Freshmen...
...duration as well as more universal in practice. Either by starting the Period before the Christmas holidays, or by pushing the mid-year examination period further, into February, abolishing the inexcusable institution of April hours, or by having but one reading period a year, it should be possible to allow the student time to correlate his knowledge of a course or to plunge deeper into some aspect of the subject. Perhaps, as the College is now organized, the difficulties in the way of extending the Reading Period are insurmountable. In that case the experiment should be abandoned...