Word: premiums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...result of this will be that the revenue of the College will be diminished, since the increased rate will not be paid in most cases, and the money hitherto received from students who take extra courses merely for education will not be secured. This increased price puts a premium on laziness also. Many a student knows that he would be able to carry an extra course successfully but the cost will cause him top refrain from electing...
...reaching eighteen, no money is to be paid; but if, having started, he fails to complete his college course, the balance due is to be paid to a designated third person twenty-five years from the date of the policy. The writer complains that the insurance companies demand a premium high enough to cover five times the risk of a child of one dying before he reaches the age of eighteen. Indeed, one agent told him that the risk was so low that the commission did not pay for the trouble of handing. All the companies consulted denied that there...
...great majority of the students appreciate the value of the general examination: they realize, too, that improvements in the plan are being made each year. But in a spirit of constructive criticism they object to a system which sets a premium upon the barest skeleton of correlated fact and gives no times for careful thought and planning. If the new examinations are to be a test of general knowledge,--they should eliminate chance by giving the student enough time to show how much he knows...
...gives each crew a better opportunity to find the man who best fulfills the requirements for successful leadership. This is decided advantage in the case of Freshman teams, which are composed of men who hall from various preparatory schools and consequently are not thoroughly acquainted with one another. A premium is now placed on ability to lead and a discount on mere popularity, while at the same time no harm is done to the man who is both popular and able. Other Freshman teams would do well to copy the crew in this regard...
...rules against speculation in tickets will be enforced with the utmost strictness. Every applicant will be held personally responsible for the tickets allotted to him, and if these tickets are offered for sale at a premium, he will be blacklisted. The rule relating to speculation is necessary to secure a fair distribution among those applicants who wish personally to attend the game, and its violation deprives other applicants of their rights...