Word: standing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...themselves or on the standard of the courses which they take. At the same time a large majority of our students, from preference or force of tradition, still adhere to the four years' course . . . Such being the case, it is highly desirable that each of the two courses should stand, as far as possible, on its own intrinsic merits, neither favored nor discriminated against by technical regulations. Each, in its own way, may be expected to have attractions for the serious-minded student, according to his temperament or his circumstances,--the three years course as one by which, with greater...
...small grand-stand has been built as an experiment near the baseball stands. The stand is built entirely of cement, supported by a steel frame, and is of the type which it is hoped to put up on the football field, if this experiment proves a success...
...more unjust, for there we tax a man's needs, not his possessions. We have failed to secure an income tax. The nation has become unlimited where it deals with men, but limited where it deals with property. The government, in the hour of peril, may take men and stand them up against the enemies' guns, but it cannot lay hand upon wealth and make it pay its share of the expenses of government...
...made by the football association, and $3,000 was made by the baseball association, but there was a deficit of $6,000 for the boat club and about $2,800 for the track team. $17,500 was spent on the field, including $12,000 for a new grand stand...
...graduates; that the contributor to athletics does not contribute in order to get the preference of tickets, but for the furtherance of a sport in which he is interested. The present system does not secure an audience which is distinctly from the University communities: near me on the grand stand sat scores of people who were simply members of an outside public interested in a great sport. It is right for the public to have an opportunity to come in after the University, but the system applied this year was somehow such that a member of the Corporation was assigned...