Word: augusts
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Such activities among the football players as will not interfere with military training at the colleges were approved of by the meeting unanimously, and the recommendation will be carried to the meeting of the National Collegiate Association to be held in Washington, D. C., in August. The resumption of intercollegiate athletics under present conditions, however, would at the best be difficult and revolutionary. By far the greater part of the men who have composed the athletic teams of the larger universities have entered some form of military service, and the teams which would represent these universities would necessarily be composed...
...Friday, June 1, for the purpose of inspecting the Reserve Officers' Training Corps. On the report which this inspector will make to Washington depends largely the questions of the Corps official recognition by the Government, and of the granting of commissions to such men as are qualified next August...
...denominations as low as $50 and as high as $1000. Registered bonds range from $100 to $100,000. The bonds may be paid for under the following government regulations: 2 percent. with the application, 18 per cent. on June 28, 20 percent. on July 20, 30 percent. on August 15, and 30 percent. and accrued interest on August 30. For a $50 bond it will therefore only be necessary to pay $1 down, $9 in the first instalment, and $10, $15, and $15 in the other three instalments respectively, the last of which is not due till...
...letter has been addressed by Major Palmer E. Pierce, U.S.A., president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, to members of that organization and others interested intercollegiate athletics, suggesting a conference to be held in Washington next August to discuss the situation growing out of the war and to adopt a uniform policy looking to the preservation of intercollegiate athletics...
...Speculators level prices through the year, giving higher prices to farmers at harvest time, and lower prices to consumers later. (That this second point is not a matter of closet theory is abundantly shown by J. E. Pope, in an article in the Harvard Quarterly Journal of Economics of August, 1916). The speculator has failed to do it during the current crop year, for reasons above indicated, in part: (3) The speculator is a risk-bearer. Millers and grain buyers in the country "hedge" by short sales on the exchanges when they buy to grind or to ship...