Word: rates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...behaviour, and may be removed by Congress without the approval of the President, but the Senate allows for the President's opinion. Although both House and Senate appear to be trying to keep this office out of polities, the Representatives seem the more determined in their efforts. At any rate, it is an excellent sign when these legislative bodies attempt to make the man more important than the office, and efficiency more important than politics. Much credit is due Representative Good, who has been leading the fight in the House, and who says: "The kind of men the President wants...
...true that a mere string of wins does not necessarily testify to a team's strength, but the nines that Holy Cross has defeated are by no means third rate ones, while some of them are among the strongest contenders for eastern of southern intercollegiate championship. Among these are Princeton, Yale and Vermont. Princeton lost only by the small margin of 4-3, but Yale was swamped 14-1, and on May 7 the Purple again piled up a large score when it crushed Tufts 12-1 at Worcester...
...first thing to be noted is that the charge for Okura courses is not pro rata. The tuition rate of $250 makes the price of a course $50 for Freshmen and $62.50 for the three upper classmen. More is to be charged for an extra course than for the whole story. The $250 paid by students represents payment for many other things than four or five courses. It is payment for the right to use the gymnasium for a nominal fee, the right to use the library, administrative expense, the maintenance and care of the College buildings and grounds...
...lectures and do the assigned reading without taking the examinations. Since the expenses of the College are approximately the same whether there are several extra men in a course or not, the 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...
...flee to New York, where she tries to be herself; whe obtains a heraing for her voice from the great Auchinloss, but it is not a great voice. Who knows but that sufficient freedom given her in her earlier year might not have allowed it to develop? At any rate, Lilly decides that her daughter should have none of the cramping "Chinese shoes" into which she was thrust slue and body the day she was born. In telling of Lilly's fight to gain for her daughter what she could never have, Miss Hurst has an excellent opportunity for interesting...