Word: withholding
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...mind. If we could only get information from some source about the real state of the case we might make definite arrangements for the future. The contractor, the architect, the bursar, the president-some one might have an opinion which might be communicated and which it is unjust to withhold...
...present case are these: A certain member of the Annex tried for the prize and won it. When Prof. Torrey opened the envelope containing the writer's name, and discovered that the lucky winner was a lady, and not a member of the University, he was naturally forced to withhold the first prize of one hundred dollars, in compliance with the rule that the prize could not be awarded to any one outside of Harvard University. The young lady was, however, awarded the maximum prize of the Annex-thirty dollars-in consideration of the excellence of her essay...
...cent. of every order." This is "fundamentally" wrong. An officer of the Hall did not know that the directors could dismiss the steward without consulting anybody, yet all this is in the "Scheme for carrying on the Hall." Courtesy for other bodies often obliges the faculty to withhold information. When the faculty decided to make the freshman courses elective, the corporation and overseers, in their opinion, had to decide the matter. A member of the faculty handed the scheme to a reporter, and the measure was nearly lost, because those two bodies first heard about it through a newspaper. Many...
First, beat down all attempts to withhold testimony. Establish the custom of compelling students to testify, no matter how nearly this may approach the principles of the old time inquisition, and how difficult it may be to change the present sentiment...
...correspondent points out, this year of all years was hardly one in which to stop the custom of awarding prizes in the scratch races. Moreover, if the contestants entered the races under the assurance that prizes were to be given, the boat club has no right to withhold them. Let the boat club, then, settle this little difficulty by purchasing the cups immediately and awarding them, with appropriate inscriptions, to the winners who have been patiently waiting for more than four months...