Word: allowance
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Allow me to call the attention of the undergraduate body to the performance of Humperdink's opera, "Haensel and Gretel," at the Boston Opera House, tomorrow afternoon. This opera is one of the most delighful of the modern German productions, the text being taken from a well-known German fairy-tale which combines both humor and pathos. The music abounds in light, sparkling tunes, and the orchestration is notable both for its richness and variety, Humperdink being acknowledged one of the most gifted of the modern writera...
...tariff, there introduced to each other, and then forming a collective family and posing as the idol of American prosperity. The tariff has not created our prosperity but the extraordinary genius of the American people. The area of free trade with in the country has been too great to allow the influences of the tariff to be felt, and it has made little difference what the height of the tariff so long as there has been free competition behind it. But that free competition has been destroyed, industries have combined, and are hiding comfortably behind the tariff wall. Prices have...
...point of view which the Northerner and Southerner can hold together, that can inspire patriotism and at the same time not awaken partisan feeling. Without such a course an ignorance flourishes which not only shuts men from an interesting topic of conversation, but also dulls their patriotism, and may allow blind prejudices to exist...
Huntington made the first score of the game after a pretty bit of team-work in which Pierce was the other participant. Having stopped a shot in the middle of the ring Huntington passed immediately to Pierce who returned the pass just. In time to escape Blair, and allow Huntington to drive the puck home. Within three minutes of this Princeton had caged its first two goals and completed the scoring for the half. The first was the result of a concerted dash down the ice in which the puck passed from Kuhn to McKinney to Baker who made...
...monopoly in the territory which it serves, there would still be many railroad companies. The danger of unprogressive management throughout the railroad industry is, therefore, slight. But in industry, the danger of unintelligent and ineffective management, the besetting weakness of a long continued monopoly, is too great to allow one, except as a last resort, to look with favor upon the establishment of a system of state regulation through an industrial commission. While it would probably prove effective as a means of preventing extortionate charges by monopolies, it might also create conditions favorable to the continuance of monopolies regardless...