Word: allowance
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...show the remedy for the existing conditions. The United States must adopt the fundamental principle of treating every race on a basis of absolute equality. Mr. Gulick would have citizenship placed on a personal basis, and not on one of race color. He suggested that the United States allow from any one country only five per cent of the number already naturalized to come in during a year. This would restrict to a small extent the immigration from southern Europe, and would reduce all immigration to a minimum. This five per cent rule would apply only to those who came...
...order that the untalented may have an opportunity of seeing the cup, the donors have consented to allow it to be placed on display in Leavitt & Peirce's window for a day or two. In the meantime interest in the Nobel prize is expected to be at a minimum...
...Allow me to call the attention of all lovers of the drama to the performance of the first part of Goethe's Faust to be given at the Shubert Theatre on February 24 at 2.15 o'clock under the auspices of the Bostoner Deutsche Gesellschaft and the Drama League. It is the first time within the memory of the present generation that this greatest of German plays will be presented in Boston. Mr. Rudolf Christians of the Irving Place Theatre in New York and his German company who will give the play are noted for their skillful interpretation and minute...
...time was 39 days. A night train took Mr. Mears to Berlin from where he started for St. Petersburg. At each of the capitals he visited the United States diplomatic representative and saw as many of the interesting sights as his time and railway connections would allow...
...Harvard with which it has been made. Jealousy between rival schools and the roaring sentiment of graduates have always been overwhelming. In western states, notably Iowa, where rival scientific schools have existed, both of them under the wing of the state, the feeling has been too strong to allow even state authority to bring about a union of any sort. Harvard and Technology have overcome these natural sentiments and, without common authority, have joined in a plan which will carry influence all over the country. Institutions of such prestige cannot but set an example which will be followed...