Word: allowance
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...percentage from each class becomes smaller. Competition has also grown keener, and hence the honor won by the men whose names are announced this morning is greater than it was in former days. The elections, moreover, have been conducted as fairly as a college grading system will allow, and scholarship has been the only standard. To men who have been busy in College affairs and have also made the Society, this is distinctly added honor; to others it is, of course, an achievement in itself very much worth while...
...present planned the recess is to extend from December 23 to January 3. Besides being very brief, when it is remembered that for many men this is the only vacation offering any possibility of a visit home, it has another disadvantage. It does not allow time for men from the western Mississippi Valley and beyond to reach their homes by Christmas day or to remain for New Year's. And the latter is, especially in the West, almost as great a holiday as the former. To be sure, the Office often allows an extra day or two for such...
...Chamberlin had charge of the dummy tackling of the University team for the first time today. Scovil's hand has shown much improvement and may be well enough on Saturday to allow him to play in the Princeton game...
...large number of persons could be induced to lay profane hands upon an institution which has been fixed since the days when the Puritan fathers waxed thankful for bounteous crops. But as far so college men are concerned, they would undoubtedly favor a week-end holiday which would allow many of them to eat turkey in their own homes, and save the inevitable anti-climax of the following blue Friday and Saturday...
Longer recesses are allowed at other eastern institutions. Yale and Dartmouth allow 18 days each, Princeton has 16 days, and Cornell and Williams each 15. The University would be well satisfied with two full weeks, from December 20 to January 2, inclusive; this would allow three Sunday's making 15 days in all. Only three more days of actual work would be omitted,--two hours for some courses, and one hour for others. And no one would murmur at somewhat increased assignments to make up the loss...