Word: contracts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...service of many of our students on the Mexican Border. Several colleges retarded their opening because of the epidemic. It is a satisfaction to report that the decision of the Harvard authorities to open on time, made after careful deliberation and upon expert advice, was vindicated. Only one student contracted poliomyelitis throughout the college year, and it is probable that he did not contract the disease in Cambridge. Some 45 men were allowed to register late because they were held in the militia by the difficulty with Mexico. In nearly every instance their previous records were such as to enable...
...Congress can pass the necessary legislation. We should not wait until the end of the war in the meantime fighting Germany with our present military organizations, but we should immediately establish a system such as has been adopted in Switzerland and Austria. The United States has taken on a contract to reinstate Belgium and Poland, and recently, by message of President Wilson, to free Roumania from Austrian control. This is a vast undertaking, but we must fulfill it. Of course we can accomplish our purpose with our present military establishments, but we could do it much better and fully...
...game between the Second Naval District team and the informal University originally scheduled to be played on Soldiers Field November 17 has been transferred to the Naval Reserve station in Newport on the same date. The University management offered to release the sailors from their contract to play the informals in order that a Naval Reserve-Navy Yard game might be arranged on that date. C. R. Black, captain of the Naval Reserves and also captain of the 1916 Yale eleven, did not care, however, to take advantage of this offer, with the result that the original plan will...
From a purely commercial point of view, according to the Athletic Association officials, there will be no difficulty in connection with the cancellation of the schedules. Such action would necessitate calling off games with some colleges who will not suspend athletics, but no institution would so cling to their contract as to demand a payment of the guarantee under circumstances like the present. Financially, the year's receipts would be much larger than the expenditures, for the expenses of crew and the various Southern trips would be done away with, and the largest receipt item, the returns from football...
...least tend to establish that wage fixing acts are "due processes of law." The dissenting judges in performing the process of balancing the interests must have regarded the predominant effect of the Act as one which substituted the legislative flat for the freedom of the railroad managers to contract with employees as to wages...