Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...current issue of the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine contains a proposal that men who are able to pay the full cost of a college education should be made to do so. The article goes on to say that "the exact measure of this contribution would be difficult to determine, but some notion of it may be gained at any great collegiate function that brings the parents and friends of college boys into the open together and enables them to display simultaneously their automotive opulence." The "Quadwrangler" in the Transcript of April 30 comments on this proposal favorably, but regards the whole...
...regard for it would elicit the inevitable cynicism: "Can any good come out of Nazareth?" Let us rather consider the applicability of the suggestion to our own, University. Is it certain that the project is too ideal? Is it certain that it would be difficult to determine the exact measure of the contribution? Surely the unit cost of a Bachelor's degree has been calculated by some one and is known to some one. It is not unreasonable to ask all who receive Bachelor's degrees to pay for what they get. Then let the endowment be used to permit...
...because he said that he consulted it before taking any important action. Consequently, when every one of our official bodies, from state legislatures down to city councils and boards of selectmen, try to establish their own regulations in regard to clock-worship (chronometrolatry, if a more 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...
...Whether or not strikes in essential industries should be declared illegal," is the general subject proposed by the University Debating Council for the Freshman Triangular Debate which will be held next month. The exact wording of this question will be decided upon by Yale. Professor H. B. Huntington '97 of Brown University will be head coach and will be assisted by L. Dennis Occ., winner of this year's Coolidge Prize...
Formal activities of the Leonard Wood Club of Harvard will begin next week when ex-Senator Samuel George, of Haverhill, will address the organization at an open meeting in the Living Room of the Union. This speech, the exact date of which will be announced later, is to be the first of a series of lectures given under the auspices of the Wood Club for the purpose of spreading knowledge of the career of General Wood and of his strength as a presidential candidate. The speaker for the following week will be the Honorable W. F. Lufkin, President...