Word: amounts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...report to the University Board of Overseers of the Committee on Military Science and Tactics. They also urged that sections 49 and 50 of the Act be amended so that eligibility for commissions shall depend on the satisfactory completion of the hours of training required and that the amount of military work to qualify students for commissions in the Army be reckoned entirely in hours...
...track season opened unofficially with the annual mid-winter carnival which extended from March 8 to March 13. As a result of the inclement weather as well as undergraduate indifference the carnival was only sparsely attended, and no great amount of interest was aroused by the results. The most striking feature of the meet was the unusually prominent part played by the Freshmen, who furnished a majority of the winners...
...hampering posterity by a bond issue can be prevented by levying the financial cost solely on present society. Moreover, taxation means a distribution of the burden according to ability to pay. It is as democratic as the conscription of an army; it will bring in exactly the desired amount; and it is certain in action. Conscription of wealth is in many respects ideal...
Turning now to the issue of bonds as a method of war-finance, we see that it possesses none of those advantages. It penalizes the willing and leaves the pocketbooks of the less patriotic untouched. It places a financial difficulty on future generations; the amount of money it will realize is indefinite; its success may not always be assured. Yet despite all this, it possesses political and psychological advantages of undoubted merit. Where the public, already crushed by the tax-collector's demands, would not stand any increase in taxation, it gladly buys bonds. There is no better stimulus than...
...That, for the duration of the war, students taking Military Science be relieved of the requirements for distribution to an amount equivalent to the number of courses taken in Military Science but not exceeding two full courses, provided they take not less than the equivalent of one full course in every group...