Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Because of the limit on the number of men entering Harvard College and because of the poor showing of men who have in the past been readmitted after an initial failure the Administrative Board hereafter will ordinarily not grant readmission to men whose connection with the College has been severed. It will, however at its meeting on September 13, 1929 consider all applications which have reached the Dean before September 1. and in exceptional cases may grant readmission...
Stock market absorption of credit was regarded with misgiving. But the keynote, ringingly struck, was that there is no limit to the capacity of the U. S. consumer to consume, and that the years 1922-29 had seen a pleasing increase in the capacity of U. S. production to supply material for consumption. Thus was observed a non-vicious circle in which the manufacturer constantly produced more merchandise, the consumer constantly consumed more merchandise, and out of the horn of plenty came gifts...
...great national oil restriction program (TIME, April 8 et seq.) opened another seam last week when Oklahoma operators decided that the sky was the limit on Oklahoma production. Prairie Oil & Gas and Sinclair Oil Corp. were listed as anti-restriction leaders, with the approach of the automobile and gas-consuming season as underlying motive for increased production. Oklahoma has had a proration agreement with an umpire (one Ray Collins) to enforce it, but oilmen turned baseball-men, cried Kill the Umpire, abolished the proration system...
...success, one hopes that her progress is of an un-mixed nature. Should expansion necessitate further extension of the club element in what is essentially an all-Harvard enterprise, no number of new buildings would be compensation. An ambitious building program might easily lead to a situation that would limit the scope and possibilities of the Advocate as an organ of student literary expression. New quarters to meet the needs of the day are not only desirable but necessary, but these quarters should definitely remain those of a publication and an over emphasis of their social usefulness ought...
...season the quota of 400 for the first-year class was reached and a limit of 500 was set for this year and was exceeded by 22. This year also saw the number of Harvard graduates registered in the first-year class jump from about...