Word: allowance
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...team has also some good field event men. On the other hand, the Pennsylvania aggregation is a well-balanced one and will take many seconds and thirds. It will probably happen that one of the two will detract a sufficient number of points from the other so as to allow Yale to slip into second place. The University team will have Michigan to contend with for fourth place, with the odds in favor of the latter for the position. The actual strength of the Western team is unknown and it is possible that it may be even a serious contender...
...declaring illegal all combinations in restraint of trade, the other holding a broader view and calling only unreasonable restraint of trade illegal. In the Northern Securities case the Supreme Court seemed to favor the first opinion, but in its latest decision it takes sides with those who would allow reasonable restraint. The decision will not cause a wholesale dissolution of holding companies and of combinations to prevent competition, but will make it necessary to try each case on its own merits and force out of existence those companies which break the anti-trust law and restrain trade unreasonably...
Already, through personal and general discursion, it has become evident that the new plan does not recommend itself to a large number of men. To allow the daily papers or other parties apparently interested in the intellectual welfare of Harvard to boldly compile the inevitable statistics obtainable from hitherto very private sources, appears to some men little short of a betrayal of a sacred trust on the part of the College authorities. But such is not the case. The office is bound by no agreement relative to the publicity of a man's true academic standing. It is an accepted...
...through whom this end can be accomplished, will be most affected by the publication of marks. That class comprises men who, although perfectly able to make an average of B's, are content, as it were, to skate along on the thinnest ice which the Office will allow. Were their marks made public, a sense of pride and the knowledge that many friends know them to be capable of much better work, would combine to make these men exert their best efforts. Such conditions apply to the average undergraduate, and hence there is little doubt that the institution...
...date has been chosen to allow several colleges to compete which could not get gliders ready by May 3. The meet will be held at the Harvard Aviation Field, Atlantic, under the auspices of the Harvard Aeronautical Society...