Word: frequent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Commission's recommendations, President Hoover last week waited until the eve of the Senate's debate on the matter, then issued a statement defending his rate-changing power as it stands. He said it was a wise power, protecting public interest from long delay, guarding against too-frequent revisions of the whole tariff. It had been held constitutional, he reminded. It did not make the President a despot, etc., etc. Having thus broken his silence on the Tariff, President Hoover once more fell silent, watched the Tariff War from afar...
Though the story may be apocryphal in detail, it well suggests the temper of Harkness giving. His frequent and princely donations to education and charity have always been unobtrusive, modest. In philanthropy he does not bunch his hits as do the Rockefellers, but scatters gifts of $100,000 or more to dozens of causes and institutions. Sometimes he gives to institutions he has never seen. Though the complete listing of the Harkness benefactions would stretch over columns, these are representative, most of them recent...
Captain B. B. Wygant, Professor of Naval Science and Tactics, declined to speak of the Shearer situation specifically, because he knew nothing about it excepting what he read in the newspapers, the frequent errors of whose reporting make him hesitate to commit himself. However, on the general subject of the proposed naval equality of Great Britain and the United States, Captain Wygant said that naval officers in general were in favor of any plan that would produce peace, "but perhaps naval officers more than others realize the sacrifices that are entailed by not being ready when any emergency may arise...
With this trust, lies the responsibility of which the present action of the Budget Committee, is significant, namely, the frequent publication of figures, the full release of information regarding all those activities in which the Council as the agent of the undergraduate is participating. A more intimate knowledge on the part of the undergraduate in the work of the Council would react to the mutual advantage of both parties...
...subjects connected with the present situation in universities and colleges The New Republic receives frequent communications--the low salaries of professors and the rising fees for tuition. It is not often that the same correspondent protests against both evils, at any rate in the same letter. The connection between them is too obvious--one is an attempt to remedy the other. It is true that the student's tuition fee seems to have increased more rapidly than the wage of his instructor. A part of the former is necessarily absorbed by the heightened cost of maintenance of a modern educational...