Word: keeping
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...custom, the candidates for the Freshman baseball team will not remain in Cambridge during the vacation. Last year about 20 men were kept, and practice was held daily, a scrub game being played on the last day of the vacation. This year it has been found advisable not to keep the candidates, but all men have been urged to keep good training, and to play ball if possible. It is probable that a small cut will be made before the return of the candidates, and that about 30 men will be retained to form are squad for the harder training...
...under the impression that the editors of the Advocate, as well as those of other college papers, make them up, and have difficulty "filling" at the last moment. This is a fatal habit. Why not keep on hand a quantity of good fiction and verse? Much good stuff is to be had from English 12 and English...
...Middle Ages there was no great system of property owning, whereby a man could borrow money on security, but rather a universal pawn-system, in which money was obtained by pawning farm products, etc. It was an essential for each small householder to keep a hoard of money to meet expenses, whereas, today, wealth may be obtained solely on credit. It is an interesting fact that we have but three times as much money in circulation, nowadays, as at the time of Louis XVI, while we are seven or eight times as rich...
...broad and varied humor as Flaschner, the policeman, produced a very funny character. G. A. Schnieder '07 in the long part of Beigeordneter Strenge, about whom the whole play centres, was good at times, but did not know his part well enough to throw himself into it and keep up the action of the play...
Until recent times there has been no equality between the laborer and the employer; but such a condition has gradually come about regardless of the efforts to keep it down. In 1789 there was an ordinance passed called the "Liberty of Labor Act;" but the effect of this act upon the actual progress of industry was infinitesimal. The real factor which led to the equalization of laborer and employer, and which also laid the foundations for the great industries of the present, was the introduction of machinery...