Word: allowing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...large body of its graduates resident in or near that city, was to Yale what Boston is to Harvard, and was unwilling to negotiate further until an attempt had been made to induce the Harvard Athletic Committee to make an exception to the so-called New England rule and allow a football game in New York on Thanksgiving Day. In difference to this wish of Yale and to the strong desire of Harvard graduates resident in New York, as expressed by two of the New York members of the Board of Overseers, the Athletic Committee, believing that, if certain steps...
...taxation and collection is desirable, but Henry George's single tax is too simple. By the laws of diffusion of taxes they finally fall on consumers in the proportion that the aggregate consumption of the consumer bears to the aggregate consumption of the community. A law which does not allow of diffusion of taxes is a bad one. A good system would be to tax land, building rentals, earnings of corporations, and whatever else was necessary could be levied upon spirits and tobacco...
...Allow us, as editors of "The Harvard Portfolio," to add to the article which appeared in the CRIMSON of last Saturday, a word of explanation. The one thing which prevents every student from purchasing at the close of each collegiate year a large number of photographs of men and things that have interested him, is the expense involved. By recently improved processes it has now become possible excellently to reproduce photographs at a cost much below that of the originals. The function in the new publication is, then, to furnish in permanent form a representative collection of such reproductions. That...
...Dartmouth faculty have refused to allow the seniors to use the college church for commencement exercises. It is said that this action will result in the erection of a new building in the near future...
Bonds in railroad affairs represent conservatism, while stocks represent enterprise. The two great aims of the railroad reformer is how to allow each of these two farces, conservatism and enterprise to assume their relative positions in the best manner possible. The speaker then spoke of the building of the Wisconsin Central road to Lake Superior by eastern capitalists some years ago, their large bonded debt, the attempt of a few of the largest stockholders to depreciate the value of the stock and buy it up at their own price, and their failure. Mr. Abbot thought too that a railroad foreclosure...