Word: proportionate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Reward Out of Proportion to Cost
For the year 1919-20, the first normal athletic season since the war, the accounts of the Harvard Athletic Association showed a total deficit of $6343.44. In the "war" year, 1918-1919, due to the fact that the expenses were great, and the receipts exceedingly small, the loss was $30...
4. "That to the powers of the Council there be added: 'The power to publish annually, through a board of editors sanctioned by it, the Harvard University Register, from which it shall receive a certain proportion of the profits in successful years, and for which it shall take over the...
As for tunes, the big hit of the evening is "On the Brim of Her Old Fashioned Bonnet"; the audience whistles this catchy and irresistible melody as soon as it hears it. "Hootch" is a humorous song, in which the music, however, is subordinated to the words. The other compositions...
Why does labor strike? Figures published by the Bureau of Mediation and Arbitration in New York show that of the 240 industrial disputes in that state for one year, 139 were for higher wages, 21 for shorter hours and 37 were on the question of trade unionism. The most noticeable...