Word: due
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...distinct value in promoting the physical efficiency of the athlete, his interest in his sport, and his interest in his fellows. The question is not whether training tables should be maintained, but whether they should be maintained at their present high cost. If this high cost is due to extravagance, and the extravagance is removed, all cause for complaint should vanish...
...year, the rest of the time being taken up by enforced holidays, which diminished the well-being of laborers. M. d'Avenel shows that women have gained about 75 per cent, over the wages of the Middle Ages, while men have lost about 50 per cent. This is due to the free competition among women. As they have been able to earn more, the marriage burdens on men have been lessened, which has given rise to larger families. Today, one hour's labor procures half the quantity of provisions that it would have procured a century...
...subject to constant scrutiny, with a desire to adapt it to existing conditions, nowhere more than in the Athletic Committee itself. That the whole code has not been thoroughly overhauled and simplified during the last two years, as was planned by the Committee in the spring of 1904, is due to causes quite beyond the control of that Committee. H. S. WHITE...
...play during the first half was fairly close, due mainly to Cuthell's inability to take advantage of Harvard's fouls. In about the middle of this period Currie shot the University team's only goal from the floor on a difficult shot from the corner. Cuthell by very fast work made two baskets from the floor in this half, and when time was called the score was 9 to 5 in favor of Columbia...
Under the changes brought about by the revolution, there was no material difference in the condition of the workingman; merely a political change resulted. Since the revolution, on the other hand, the workingman has experienced great material changes. These are due solely to the progress of science and not to political interference. The most important element in the consideration of this matter, has been the changes in money values. Two hundred dollars in the year 1200, would be worth only 74 cents today...