Word: allow
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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Bonds in railroad affairs represent conservatism, while stocks represent enterprise. The two great aims of the railroad reformer is how to allow each of these two farces, conservatism and enterprise to assume their relative positions in the best manner possible. The speaker then spoke of the building of the Wisconsin Central road to Lake Superior by eastern capitalists some years ago, their large bonded debt, the attempt of a few of the largest stockholders to depreciate the value of the stock and buy it up at their own price, and their failure. Mr. Abbot thought too that a railroad foreclosure...
...rightly in following the promptings of his principles, but that the reasons for the belief in the justice of the principles were defective. He said that a criticism ought not to be directed against the speaker of the house but against the influences that control his actions and that allow of the exercise of such arbitrary power...
...last Nassau Lit, strongly urges the revival of the old Princeton Tiger a paper corresponding with the Lampoon. Several years ago the faculty refused to allow the revival of the Tiger, but it is thought that they would be more favorable to such a proposition...
...removed. Instead, then, of only one man's appearing as a candidate, there ought to be a larger number than ever before. Harvard has been famous in past years for her tug-of-war team, and in her last year of membership in the intercollegiate league ought not to allow the event to go uncontested. More than that she cannot afford to. Harvard must make a determined effort to win the Mott Haven cup this year, and show that in track and field athletics the contest lies now as it has lain for the last ten years, between Harvard...
...left to her choice. In this respect the present challenge is even more favorable to Yale, if possible, than former ones. Last year's challenges stipulated that the number of competitors should be from five to ten, and that if Yale chose a course near New Haven she should allow Harvard $8.00 per man, or receive $8.00 per man if she chose a course near Cambridge. Even these conditions have now been removed, and have left the challenge as broad and unqualified as it possibly could be made...