Word: curtailing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...considerable expense no one can deny. That it is also one of the most impressive and memorable of Senior functions is equally certain. We are faced in this war with the necessity of economies, but we must realize that it is to the best interests of the nation to curtail only those activities which are incompatible with a successful prosecution of the war. Before doing away with Class Day in the Stadium we must consider what it means in the lives of those who remain as well as what it means in the conservation of the nation's energy...
...action of the committee in eliminating all exercises in the Stadium was taken because the change in plans will curtail Class Day expenses at least one-fourth, without seriously interfering with the effectiveness of the day's ceremonies...
Finally, we must see that the war will some day end, and that at that time the status of peace with all its normal workings must be resumed. We must curtail all the non-essentials of ordinary life to as great an extent as the war demands. We must at all times remember, however, that in maintaining as much of a peace organization as is compatible with war-time needs, we will be effectively preparing for the future...
Contrary to statements made during the last three days in the press, the University Athletic Committee plans to encourage minor sports this spring. Both Dean Briggs and Captain F. W. Moore '93, graduate treasurer of the Athletic Association, denied that any action to curtail sport had been taken at or since the meeting of the Athletic Committee on February 19, when it was decided to resume athletics on a formal but restricted basis...
...would be absurd to deny, but there is an overbalancing weight of desirable features. Were Princeton, Yale, Harvard, Cornell, Dartmouth and Pennsylvania to enlist themselves in a body designed to place a limit upon the salaries of coaches, the number of coaches engaged, team expenses--in short, to curtail and generally supervise the whole question of athletic economics, the effect would be immediate and farreaching...