Word: allowance
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...hurdles will be run on the grass, and the flights will be stationary, the Americans having yielded to this demand. Also Oxford and Cambridge have announced their willingness to allow freshmen at the American colleges to compete, and this makes a place on the team for Stewart, the Yale Freshman who did the quarter in 50 flat in the dual meet between the Harvard and Yale freshman teams...
...spring of 1910, intermittently at first and then annually, the Massachusetts legislature was petitioned by residents of Cambridge, Williams-town, and other towns in which colleges were situated, to tax those institutions. The bills were regularly rejected; but there was sufficient opposition on the part of some politicians to allow the colleges to go untaxed, to cause anxiety for the financial future of those colleges. Harvard University, for instance, would be crippled, if it were forced to pay taxes on all its exempted property...
...Desha and came up to the mark with a perfect sacrifice. Potter succumbed to Imlay's fast shoots. Then McLaughlin hit an easy one to Aldendifer, who had been fielding his position faultlessly, but in his anxiety to make a fast play, the later fumbled the ball, allowing McLaughlin to reach first easily. Meanwhile Babson had rounded third and was racing for the plate. Aldendifer's throw was too far to the left of the rubber to allow Cozens to catch the runner and Harvard had the tieing...
...state of affairs which compels the shopkeepers in and about Harvard square to carry twenty per cent, of their accounts through the summer is a disgrace to every Harvard man personally and to the name of the University. Shopkeepers allow credit as a favor, and they are met by indifference and ingratitude. It is difficult to ascribe any real reason for the prevalent carelessness in money matters except that the student who is able to run up a large bill has not come to the full appreciation of the value of credit. Being careless about the manner in which...
...make the Engineering Society a forum where its members may informally talk over the current problems of engineering. The graduate membership will allow every man to take an active part in the discussions...