Word: alterations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nothing compared to the high coast of remaining single. By the simple process of taking a wife, a man may jump his exemption from $1,000 to $2,000 which virtually makes the ordinary citizen's income tax-free. Many a blushing June bride has been hustled to the alter in the middle of December to gain the $2,000 exemption for the entire year. Love as usual has found a way to surmount all obstacles...
...impossible to alter the present situation without a change in Harvard's club system which will be slow in coming, if practicable, at all. We can make the best of the circumstances, however, by using the Union, which is in many ways the most attractive building in Cambridge, to make the stay of visitors to Harvard enjoyable. A good time to try to obliterate previous impressions of in-hospitality will be in the middle of April when the delegates to the Intercollegiate Conference at M. I. T. come to Cambridge...
...Empire was governed by men of the highest respect for justice and the law, but as a matter of governmental necessity they were compelled to see to it that members of that idle and dangerous sect of agitators the Christians, burn a little just a little incense on the alter of the Emperor. They didn't do it, and some of us are inclined to admire them for it. JOHN F. SIMS...
...situation is a change in the name of that society, so as to eliminate all possibilities of further criticism. The Glee Club under its present system is rather more inclined toward the choral and the stately anthem than it is toward the rollicking-student song. Were the club to alter its name to that of "The Harvard Chora Society," not only could there be no more doubt as to its character, but it would also be more appropriately named in the eyes of those who are its friends...
...exact term is desired), the effects are apt to be disastrous. We have read of New Jersey court-houses, where the judge arrived an hour early and the jury an hour late, while the prisoner and the witnesses were kept in agonized suspense, of New Haven trains stopping to alter their schedules at every siding, water-tank, and town boundary in the state of Connecticut, of Farmers' Associations threatening to retire from business if the Daylight Saving Ordinonce were adopted, and Chambers of Commerce vowing to disband if it were not. At present most of us are in the same...