Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...atmosphere, would transfer it into a mere subscription party, nondescript and characterless. A Boston hotel would present unwise and perhaps disastrous extraneous temptations. We recall the class dinners of old. Finally, it is doubtful whether engaging any of these places would decrease expenses. The apparent price might be lower, but the general average would be higher. For the Union, the class pays no rental; and those who are already members escape for a comparatively small price. For any other suitable hall, the rental would be high, and none exempt from payment...
Competition between the Schools of Applied Science of Technology and Harvard has never been intentionally cutthroat, but its effect, nevertheless, has been to lower the efficiency of each institution in the field of science. That rich phrase, reduplication of effort, has always pointed an accusing finger at the obvious waste of rival educational institutions serving the same community. But a sort of desire for solitary completeness has been put aside and co-operation, which sixteen and eleven years ago, was suggested and failed to carry, has finally begun. The details of the agreement which was accepted yesterday are bewildering...
...perhaps caused by the fact that New England is more crowded with welltrained lawyers than almost any other part of the country, making the competition keener. In comparing the territory east of the Mississippi, what that west of the Mississippi, it is found that the eastern section has the lower average, and doubtless for the same reason. In the eight year out, the average east of the Mississippi is larger than that west, but this cannot be relied upon owing to the fact that the figures given out for that year for men west of the Mississippi are based upon...
During the winter months a scarcity of exercise, felt in many quarters, always comes upon Cambridge. Why is it, then, that the teams in the minor sports continue, year after year, to have few candidates and to be of lower caliber than the size of the University warrants? Wrestling, swimming and gymnastics have had a precarious existence for some time; basketball fell by the wayside long ago. Yet these same sports are enthusiastically entered in to at all other colleges. Undergraduates are content to have Harvard lamely represented in the minor sports although these offer an opportunity of great physical...
...steps of business change through the crisis and back to the period of revival, the starting point in the first talk. The process of liquidation lasts about six weeks, at the end of which the cumulation of inactivity, marked by a falling off of physical volume of trade and lower prices, causes the factories to go on short time and to shut down. There is a general fall in prices and profits, and a cumulation of depression that discourages the businessmen. The depression reacts in the good effect of reduction in costs and an increased efficiency of labor...