Word: drastically
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...conditions brought to light by the report of the Faculty Committee on the tuition fee make evident the necessity of some drastic change in the finances of the University. The committee reports that for the last six years the annual expenditure has exceeded the income by about $43,000. Until now, this has been met from the unrestricted funds. Obviously this process cannot continue indefinitely. For this situation, there are three solutions. Either large gifts must be secured promptly, or the equipment of the University must be cut down, or the tuition fee must be raised. No one, upon serious...
...Advocate, under newly-elected officers, announces as one of its New Year's resolutions the intention of entertaining the College. In the opening story, Mr. Cutler makes a somewhat drastic effort to carry out the threat. He is obviously trying to be extravagantly farcical; he succeeds...
...recognition of the fact that the requirements for admission to Yale College and Sheffield Scientific School put a premium on special training and cramming, a joint committee of the two undergraduate faculties has recommended drastic modification of the present system. This is another phase of that movement that began here at Harvard to bring the college into closer relations with preparatory and public schools throughout the country and to set the entrance examinations so that a general knowledge of certain broad fields of study would suffice to pass them. The successful working of the new plan at Harvard was shown...
...list of the rules passed for the purpose of ensuring greater safety and an analysis of their probable effect shows how many and drastic the changes are. Moreover the other rules, though made in part for other reasons, should also help in the result sought...
...second half of his lecture on "The Federal Regulation of Corporations," yesterday, Mr. Henry L. Stimson spoke first on the drastic Sherman act of 1890, which by its broad scope and sweeping and inaccurate language attacked not the corporate evil alone, but the inevitable economic growth upon which it rested. To the Supreme Court was left the task of interpreting the law, and the Court, realizing the power which was placed in its hands, went slowly. So it was not until the famous "Northern Securities" case was decided that it was clearly seen how tremendous was the power conveyed...