Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...decreasing the expense ratio, or by increasing the sales. It is not the purpose of the Directors to reduce expenses, but so far as can be inferred, to increase them, and at the same time to increase the sales in proportion. There is no magic in "incorporation" which can avoid this plain issue. The sales now amount to about $250,000 a year; and further increase of business will involve greater responsibilities, and will not reduce the student's expenses, inasmuch as the prices of regular dealers come pretty close to those of the Co-operative, and are kept down...
...present, the jumpers and hurdlers should report in the Gymnasium on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 3.30. As many men as possible should join the morning squad at 12 o'clock, in order to avoid overcrowding in the afternoon squads...
...place of this bridge, the city would have not only secured the dam, but would also have saved about $1,000,000. A dam with a roadway could be built with equally favorable results in place of the Craigie bridge, and furthermore, the building of a dam would avoid the expenditure, otherwise necessary, of $400,000 for dredging the basin...
...minutely the British with the American athletes or to discuss at length their different modes of training. The Americans certainly take great pains in this respect, and work out their methods with mechanical precision, rather too mechanical, perhaps, if it be true as I am told that some men avoid being selected to represent their university in athletic competition on account of the many pleasures which they would have to give up and the laborious training which they would have to undergo. Possibly we train too little, they train too much. The climate no doubt has an effect upon both...
...fact the fundamental belief which gives rise to asceticism is the belief that life is a tragedy and that we are in this world, not to avoid its hardships, but to face them bravely, even to encounter them voluntarily. In modern times the only expression of this feeling is in the military asceticism. This spirit surely should have another outlet; and much instruction may be gained on this point from the lives of the old ascetics...