Word: fixedly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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This policy would have the following advantages: (1) it would fix responsibility for economy and for the assignment of aid to the teams where it belongs, with the graduate manager and Athletic Committee; (2) it would avoid discrimination in favor of the sports that happen to draw large crowds; (3) the cost of tickets would be reduced, and the unequal burden of subscriptions would be taken off managers, who now have to devote a lot of valuable time to them, and off subscribers, who give grudgingly perhaps, or beyond their means because asked by a personal friend; (4) more...
...speeches of last year's Harvard-Yale debate have been published in book form, and are on sale at the Co-operative. The subject is. "Resolved. That a commission be given power to fix railroad rates...
...humorous play, filled with ridiculous situations in which the butler, the chief actor, places himself. He has broken a very old and valuable clock and, fearing the irritable temper of his master. has bribed the chambermaid to say nothing about it, and also to secure a clockmaker to fix it. The clockmaker comes and examines the clock, but on his departure leaves his hat. The butler hides the hat, but it is found by another servant and brought, to the master, to whom the butler tells many lies to clear himself. He again hides the hat, which, however, is found...
President G. G. Smith favored most strongly this amendment, and in a printed slip distributed the day before the meeting urged its adoption. He pointed out that it is the duty of the Board of Directors to appoint employees, fix their pay, and criticise and direct their work; and that for any employee to have a part in his own appointment, in the fixing of his own pay, and in the criticism and direction of his own work, must often make free discussion of such questions by the Board impossible, and even an unbiased vote by no means easy...
...important meeting of the society will be held in the Shepard Room of the Phillips Brooks House at 5 o'clock next Tuesday to discuss plans for encouraging the study of Esperanto at Harvard to fix the dates on which the competitions for the Ostwald prizes of $50 for the best speech an essay in Esperanto will close...