Word: allowance
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Chairman of the Trophy Room Committee explaining the apparent neglect of our athletic trophies. As is often the case the neglect is not due to the lack of interest of the men in charge but to the lack of funds in their control. It is a great pity to allow banners and other destructible relics to be ruined because there is not enough money to preserve them, and to allow cups to be hidden away out of sight because there are no cases to put them in. Certainly this is a cause which deserves recognition from the class treasurers...
...Massachusetts State Child Labor Committee on the education of boys and girls as skilled laborers. He emphasized the fact that the rules of labor unions in this country limit the number of apprentices to far below the natural demand for skilled labor, and are consequently harmful, as they allow only a certain limited number of boys and girls to become skilled laborers. President Eliot discussed the perfection to which the German system of trade schools has been carried. In these schools compulsory education lasts until the age of sixteen, while in the American schools it is stopped at fourteen. There...
...Nourse's game has always been consistent, and it was due to his aggressiveness that the Navy game was turned from a defeat into a tie game. The two guards, Hoar and Dunlap, are strong players. In case the injury which Dunlap received in the Dartmouth game does not allow him to play, Withington will fill his place. Withington is one of the most aggressive players on the squad, and despite his light weight, plays a hard, fast game...
...bend Weld was some ninety feet ahead of Matthews, but at the second bend quickened the stroke and finished far in the lead. Before the second bend Russell-Ware had bumped College House. Matthews was considered bumped as it did not keep to the inside of the river, and allow Perkins to bump...
...flow of the Charles River was stopped yesterday by the closing of the dam that has been under construction for several months near the Craigie Bridge. The cutting off of the river channel is to allow the construction of the main section of the permanent dam and roadway. It will be fully a year from now before the completion of the entire work can be observed, for after the dam is finished a roadway 100 feet wide is to be built along its top, serving as a permanent substitute for the old Craigie Bridge. The shutting off of the water...