Word: provisos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bequests to various institutions, including Colby, on condition that they have no football teams are examples of gifts carrying with them provisos which restrict their usefulness. In this case rejection is easy, but it is often more difficult to balance good against evil. Mr. Wilson, as president of Princeton, fought a hard fight before persuading the trustees to reject a gift offered on condition that certain radical changes be made in the educational methods. Museums of art are often faced with the same difficulty when individuals donate their valuable though heterogeneous collections with the proviso that the whole be kept...
...definite agreement between the employer and the worker as an organized unit. In union shops non-union workers sometimes are employed, but only when union men cannot be had. Most agreements provide that when no union workmen are to be had non-union workers may be employed, with the proviso that they make application for union membership within a reasonable period of time. 'The true open shop,' remarks Mr. Gompers, in the same editorial, and there are very few of them--is a shop in which union men and non-union men may work...
...Nominating Committee shall have general charge of the class elections"--so reads the Constitution of the Senior Class. The Nominating Committee of the Class of 1921 saw fit to follow this proviso in the following manner...