Word: rates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...news column this morning bears the encouraging tidings that there is a possibility that the Junior and Sophomore classes may complete their election in two days--possibly the recalcitrant hundred or so still necessary to make up the sixty per cent will need a week's nagging--at any rate we may be sure that sometime before the end of the month the two classes will have decided which men, excluding those who have been already honored, they wish to be regarded as the "big men" in the class. In the meantime the college will be enjoying its peculiar form...
...original lyrics, among which was, "when a Wife Gets Fat". Cecil Lean's caricature of a baseball fan was extremely good and should be made the leading part of the act. Sam Hearn, the fiddling politician, gave a little speech dealing more or less with politics, but at any rate keeping every one in a happy frame of mind with his witticisms. The speech was followed by some very skillful violin playing. "The Cave Man" was an interesting interpretation of the old them suggested by the title. Jock McKay, the Scotch humorist, pleased with his quaint humor and bagpipe. Wilson...
...outset, we can foresee the advantage that will be had by those taking some form of military training. The Freshman who elected equitation to satisfy his physical training requirements will find himself, provided he is already on good terms with his horse, galloping down the Post road at a rate that will make the old hero of Put's Hill squirm under his modest tombstone in Greenwich...
...this picture?" Why are we involuntarily confronted by visions of the medical adviser's office jammed with hopeful invalids waiting for the doctor's certificate that they cannot keep from sneezing. We come to college voluntarily and pay from fifty cents to a dollar, according to the current tuition rate, for an orchestra seat at a lecture. Yet why, if the office were to back the suggested notice by a promise to excuse all absences forced by consideration of the "health and enjoyment of others," why would the professors find themselves lecturing to empty halls...
...discovered that of the seven million dollars' worth of books annually imported, only two million are dutiable; therefore, without apparently stopping to ask "Why?" he decided that here was a convenient source of revenue, and included all books in his tariff bill, at the same time increasing the existing rate. But he did not stop at that; he further provided that the rate should be paid on American valuation instead of on the purchase price as before...