Word: limitates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...school year when everything seems to be going on at once, meeting after meeting is clamoring for the busy students attention, and the assignments seem especially heavy, there comes the temptation to let things slide and just hit the "high spots" so to speak. Although there is a limit to the things which a student can do it is remarkable what can be accomplished by a little systematization, not only in study but in other lines of endeavor as well. If the average student counted up the hours absolutely wasted in idle talk or in some other useless from...
...offered $100 as a first prize and $25 as a second prize for meritorious work in the Division of History, Government, and Economics. The subject chosen for this year's essays is, "Are Trade Unions a Benefit or Detriment at the Present Time to Labor?" There is no definite limit, but it is expected that the substance of the dissertation may be delivered in 20 minutes...
Without detracting in the least from the work accomplished by the Department of Physical Education, it is not too much to say that it is loaded down with more than it can handle. Limit its duties to its own specific field, place the administration of Hemenway in the hands of the Athletic Association, and both horns of the dilemma will be removed at once...
...departments in the administration, three judges in the Supreme Court, and four American assistant chiefs of the Constabulary under a Spanish brigadier. The army forces in the Philippines are cut down far below the margin of safety; and the coastal defences have been stripped to the limit. Philippine autonomy as it exists today is protected not by the battery at Corregidor or the guns of Cavite, but by such teeth as there are in the four-power treaty. Meanwhile, the islands have thrived under American rule; sanitation, communications, and the general welfare of the people have all improved greatly...
Autumn crew number 1 was pressed to the limit to win from A. C. M. 2 in the initial contest, but the smoothness and precision of the first boat proved too much for their rivals and served to place three quarters of a length between the two shells at the finish. A. C. M. 3 won the decision from the fourth autumn crew by the same distance. The second experienced football crew, pitted against the inexperienced grid oarsmen, provided by far the closest race of the afternoon. The two shells ploughed their way through the waves on comparatively even terms...