Word: allowances
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...shown impossible to enforce this law. If the people of New York could be brought to respect and obey the law the case would be entirely different, but now if you try to enforce this law and utterly fail, you will accomplish nothing. It is said that if we allow the Mayor to exercise discretion we shall have despotism; but we are willing to trust to the good sense of the American people to choose mayors who are capable of using discretion. With frequent elections there can be no despotism. Mayor Low is using discretion, and he is using...
Your correspondent of Tuesday recommends to those interested in the Boer war a book upon that subject by a popular writer of sensational fiction. Will you kindly allow me the opportunity of calling attention to a less advertised work upon the same subject by a distinguished Englishman, who is not only a literary man, but also a scholar. I refer to Mr. John A. Hobson, lecturer in the London School of Economics, and author of several well-known books upon economic theory and history, which are regularly used in our economic courses. Mr. Hobson's "The War in South Africa...
...regard to the pole vault, it was decided to allow a competitor to use a pole of any size or weight. He must not, however, during the vault, raise the hand, which was uppermost at first, to a point higher on the pole, or raise the hand, which was undermost to a point on the pole above the other hand. "Any competitor who uses a pole without a spike, shall be allowed to dig a hole not more than one foot in diameter at the take off, in which to plant his pole...
...last concert of this sort the applications for seats exceeded the supply so greatly that it has been decided to restrict the tickets to members of the Cambridge departments of the University and to allow only one ticket to each student. Applications for these should be sent with an enclosed stamped envelope before February 27, to Dr. W. H. Schofield, 23 Claverly Hall...
...used as dark rooms for the development of microscopic photographs of metallic structures, and the other two as storage rooms. On the second floor the partitions have been taken down and a single large room has been fitted up as a laboratory. Enough desks have been put in to allow eighteen students to work at the same time. A complete set of microscopic cameras and other necessary instruments have been supplied so that an accurate knowledge can be obtained of the metals under investigation...