Word: perring
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...students who took English A during the first half-year, 73 were excused from the remainder of the course at mid-years. This is a little over 12 per cent., and is very creditable in view of the fact that last year only 60, or 10 per cent., were exempted from a class of the same size...
...only about a third of the amount due form the separate clubs to the Federation has been paid in. By the constitution each club is assessed five cents per man. A good deal of expense has been undergone in getting started the work of the year, so that the dues are badly needed. At the same time the treasurers of the clubs are asked to hand in the correct lists of names upon which the assessment is paid. Those who are now members of the clubs get the use of the club room without becoming members of the Union...
...among managers, and may at times be discerned even in captains and coaches. Moreover, there has been marked improvement in these matters within a very few years. The use of automobiles has been cut down; the waste in supplies has been diminished; and, in the present year, the cost per student at the football training table has been made altogether reasonable, with no sings of disaster to the team...
...York City the rate is $15.60, but this is not a through train and men will be obliged to change. The transportation of baggage across the city is not included in this rate. In case a party of fifty or more is going the rate is $1 less per man. The Pullman fare to Washington is $3 for a lower berth and $2.40 for an upper berth...
...remotest intention of attacking us. As the risks of war decrease, we are asked to pay higher and yet higher rates of insurance. In the fiscal year 1910-11 we paid for the support of our army and navy over 43.3 percent, of our total expenditures, and 24.1 per cent, more for pensions, the burden of past wars--a total of over 440 million dollars--enough to build two hundred Widener libraries. The only possible way to stop this mad race of nations apparently trying only to discover which can bear the greatest burden of taxation...