Word: rest
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...undergraduate feeling that subscriptions should be abolished. The burden of athletic support is not borne equally at present; a few pay for more than their share. With separate tickets for each sport, the one or two more fortunate ones draw the whole student body to their games; all the rest draw from a few hundred down to a handful. At present the relative importance of a sport should not be judged by the attendance. Most men buy only one ticket, usually for football, and the minor teams have very few men at their games. They may scrape along...
...passing H. Watson '10 on the second corner, and finished five yards ahead. Matthews held second place until the third lap, when J. Early '07 of the Matthews team, was fouled by L. Watson '10 on one of the corners, which placed Matthews in the last position during the rest of the race. The foul, however, was not seen by the officials and Matthews' protest was not allowed...
...will be given a complete rest today, and will leave tomorrow afternoon for New Haven where they will play Yale in the last game of the year...
Work usually lasted only 250 days a year, the rest of the time being taken up by enforced holidays, which diminished the well-being of laborers. M. d'Avenel shows that women have gained about 75 per cent, over the wages of the Middle Ages, while men have lost about 50 per cent. This is due to the free competition among women. As they have been able to earn more, the marriage burdens on men have been lessened, which has given rise to larger families. Today, one hour's labor procures half the quantity of provisions that it would have...
...commandment concerning keeping the Sabbath day has less exemplification than any of the other commandments, although even here, we find that all animals have a certain period of rest during the year...