Word: limitates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Those colleges which limit their enrolment "in order to give a few students a better training" must in the end sustain a very heavy burden of proof; they select the best students, they say, but they retain the same teachers, and one fancies the instruction will remain much as before. I know colleges which have carried the "limiting" fever into the classes, and boast that they have improved the quality of their teaching because this or that course, which used to be open to anyone who elected it, is new strictly limited to twenty or fifteen. Well, it depends...
...applications for the Holy Cross and Brown games, which close October 6 and November 3 respectively, there is no limit as to number of personal use. Dartmouth game applications, closing October 8, are limited to four tickets, not necessarily for personal use. Princeton game applications, closing October 22, are limited to three tickets for personal use. And Yale game applications, closing November 3, may be for only two tickets for personal use. Men applying for the cheering section for this game may have only one seat...
Said he: "Injunctions have been issued which by their terms went beyond any proper limit and sought to deprive men of a lawful exercise of indisputable rights. They have been framed with partisan zeal and their effect has been to cast upon the courts the performance of duties which properly belong to those executive officers of the State or nation who are primarily charged with the preservation of public peace and public order...
...progress of Prohibition in the field of international agreement has been rapid since the first so-called Twelve-Mile-Limit Treaty with Great Britain (providing for the seizure of rum ships within an hour's sailing distance .of the coast, in exchange for allowing foreign ships to come into U. S. ports with liquors under seal). That treaty was several months in negotiation; it was signed late last January...
...been labeled "a lawyer of the big business interests," the fact remains that these same interests seem more inclined to contribute to the Coolidge than the Davis campaign chest. But a report came out of Washington that, at President Coolidge's orders, the Republicans are going to limit their campaign expense to 2½ or 3 million dollars. This is less than half the amount which the Republicans spent in 1920, and offers the Democrats an opportunity of coming nearer parity with their opponents in the matter of campaign funds than they have been in many years...