Word: limitations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other point needs to be made. The present rule calls for only five elections after the awarding of degrees, yet it is conceivable that more than five seniors not already members of Phi Beta Kappa will receive degrees with special distinction. It seems a pity that an arbitrary limit should admit some and exclude others whose records show them to be equally deserving. A motion now pending would eliminate that fault. These are small matters, but everything that strengthens the University's confidence in the justice of the chapter's election system is a gain for the value...
...thousands of less accomplished women. During the war, she was a member of the executive staff of the U. S. Food Administration. If the League's list can fairly be criticized, it is for its incompleteness. Women have made their marks in all branches of science, and to limit their professions to anatomy or astronomy is arbitrary. There are 404 of them among the 9,500 names in American Men of Science. The League might well have mentioned, for instance, Margaret F. Washburn (president of the American Psychological Association, 1922), Lillien J. Martin, Mary W. Calkins, Ethel Puffer Howes...
...What Conditions Limit the Amount of Wages That Can be Paid...
...company must ordinarily respond in damages sufficient, up to the limit specified, to compensate the sender or the receiver of a telegram for the injuries resulting from its negligence, if these could reasonably have been anticipated. But juries are not often permitted the degree of speculation allowed in this case...
...long, however. The Henley flags were scarcely 100 yards distant and Bassett reciprocated the Unions' move by an equal advance in pace which soon squared matters. There was nothing to do now but dig and trust to luck and both sets of oarsmen taxed their reserve power to the limit in those final seconds. All to no purpose, however, for the two prows cut the line at the same instant, registering a dead heat...