Word: revert
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...vote will be taken at Memorial Hall this evening during the dinner hour to determine whether the Harvard Dining Association shall retain the new system or revert to the old. The last report of the Dining Association seems to prove conclusively the success of the present plan, since the average board is about 40 cents lower than at a corresponding period of last year, and the enrolled membership 251 greater than at the first of March, when the new scheme was adopted...
...employment of municipal labor is likely to increase corruption. The extra remuneration paid to city employees must be obtained by some form of increased taxation, which will tend to benefit this privileged class of workers at the expense of the community, whereas a benefit resulting from increased taxation should revert to the public. The higher municipal wage, moreover, increases the hold upon the workman by municipal employers, which is a factor tending towards corruption...
...will of William F. Miller, of New York, filed yesterday in Pittsfield, his entire estate, estimated at more than $1,000,000, will revert to the University after the death of his wife, to whom the estate is now left in trust...
...proposition to revert to the narrower policy should therefore receive careful consideration. It will be appropriate to point out the evils of the present system, to prove that the step suggested is the sole or the best as well as the simplest solution, to justify the apparent disfranchisement of a certain class of students with respect to their athletic rights or privileges, and incidentally to define with precision the delimitation of the term graduate student. In this discussion the voice of graduates and undergraduates should both be heard, and ultimately some kind of joint intercollegiate agreement and action should...