Word: rates
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...chief condition laid down is that the Episcopal Theological School raise its tuition to $150, so as to equal the University rate. The co-operative plan is to go into effect next fall...
...political, economic and social problems sufficiently to demand total restriction. Of the immigrants already on our shores, it is the immigrant of the old type, the type that came in greatest numbers 50 years ago, who contributes most to our problems. Since these races have a relatively low rate of illiteracy, the illiteracy test once effected, would not affect them much and hence our problem would in noways be lightened...
...necessary qualification for citizenship in this country. Partial assimilation of the immigrant is obvious, but complete assimilation is unnecessary. A literacy requirement would lower the standard of living, rather than raise it, through its effect upon wages. Unemployment cannot be attributed to immigration, nor is the birth-rate affected by it. And the American standard of living depends upon the relation of wages to the cost of living which will not be raised by this literacy requirement...
...reminded of the teachers' contributory pension law, which requires all teachers (except those in the city of Boston) who enter the service of the public schools for the first time on or after July 1, 1914, to become members of the teachers' retirement association. Teachers are assessed at the rate of 5 per cent. of their salary, provided that the minimum assessment be $35 per year, and they may retire upon an allowance...
...story of the play has the material of a first rate farce, if one will only grant that fairy tales and farces make no demands of credence. The uncle of one student and the aunt of another arrive in Harvard square to reprove their respective relatives for debt and other misdemeanors. The aunt brings with her Jasmine, to whom her nephew had been engaged before he came to college. He is now in the meshes of one Phyllis, whom he would marry. The aunt, uncle, roommates, fiancees, Dramatic Club candidates with a property baby, and various others get into...