Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...rejecting by a vote of seven to two the nomination of Professor William Z. Ripley for membership on the minimum wage commission, the executive council acted as if it thought he were Professor Holcombe. Most of the criticism of Ripley would fit the prevailing estimates of Holcombe and his work on this body. Doubtless the latter did much to create the atmosphere, as to colleges and college professors, which has reacted against the Governor's latest nominee...
...believe Professor Ripley would make a good commissioner, and that Governor McCall would do well to renew the nomination with the new council soon to take office. Ripley has had varied experience in practical affairs as well as in academic life. He believes in the minimum wage idea, and we could hardly expect a board to do less than be sympathetic with the purposes for which it was founded. With one member representing the manufacturers and another labor, the occupant of the place for which the Governor nominated Professor Ripley virtually shapes the policy of the board and so should...
...retain athletics on any extensive scale. The National Association, however, has now publicly recognized these faults and it proposes to deal with these at its next session. It will pass resolutions favoring, first, that there be no more pre-season coaching; second, that professional coaching be reduced to the minimum; third, that then number of official and their fees at intercollegiate games be kept as low as possible...
...results were far above the highest expectations, for the University's minimum allotment of $25,000 was doubled in the collection and the maximum of $40,000 was surpassed by more than $10,000. The collection was one of the largest ever made in the University, and proved an unqualified success...
This Order concerns the next Officers' Camps. At first the minimum age limit was twenty-one years, which prevented the majority of last summer's Corps from applying. The present change, however, to twenty years and nine months lets in many who would otherwise have been in-eligible. Looking ahead the prospects are likewise encouraging. The younger men, under the new ruling, will be able to go into training camps three months sooner than under the previous system...