Word: allowance
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Carnegie Co. violated the workingmen's rights by an arbitrary reduction of wages. - (a). When the Co. was prosperous owing to new machinery: Pub. Opinion, July 9. (b). It refused to explain its actions: No. Amer., p. 361. (c). It did not allow the workmen any voice in the matter Ibid p. 371. (d). It refused arbitration: Ibid...
...meeting of the Advisory Committee on athletics, held Tuesday night, it was decided to allow students to play on the B. A. A. base ball team without thereby forfeiting their right to play on the Harvard nine. The committee, however, wishes it distinctly understood that this decision shall not establish a precedent for other cases of a similar nature...
Prof. Pickering has kindly consented to allow those members of the Senior Class who wish to visit the Observatory to do so on the first clear evening from date (except Sunday...
...expenses at New London, $700 of which has yet to be raised before the crew can go. At present they hope to leave for New London about June 10, that is, if the expected money is forthcoming; otherwise they will have to wait perhaps another week and this would allow only a very short time for practice on the Thames...
...Will you allow me to call attention in your columns to the Home Libraries of the Children's Aid Society? The plan of work is as follows: Twenty volumes of good story books are placed in the home of some poor child, who acts as a librarian; nine other children belong to the group, and meet once a week at a given hour to change their books. At this time a visitor meets them, oversees the library-work, and plays games with, or reads to the children for an hour or so. Several students have acted as visitors this winter...