Word: limitations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME has recently announced that it will limit itself to 80 pages until 1931; thereafter I suppose "the sky will be the limit" to advertising. I am one of those who is overfed with advertising and have cancelled my subscription to a number of magazines and publications which force advertising into the reading pages and insist that the reader must take this meretricious hash, whether he wants to or not. I have already written once before protesting against what I consider an insufferable impertinence on the part of modern publishers, to whom the advertiser is the commanding force...
...University among its speakers, it has taken too little advantage of the large group of interesting lecturers living at its very doors. Many undergraduates, through the restriction of the course requirements of their field of concentration or merely because the number of courses a student may take has definite limit, go through their college careers without having heard more than a few of the "greats" of the University...
When I read about your new advertisement policy in a recent issue, I was cheered to learn that TIME'S management, more courageous than most publishers, had decided to limit the amount of advertising matter. As I recall it, you said you would in the future restrict the newsmagazine to 80 pages. You can imagine what I thought of your courage when I opened the Oct. 7 issue and found the last page numbered 84. Have you . . . "weaseled...
...good deal of competition for favorable land sites. That the university should have the advantage of tax-exemption in all cases has seemed to some an anachronism which long since should have been done away with. The advantages which the town receives from having the university within its limits are universally recognized, but that they more than compensate for the loss of tax money on land of ever increasing value would be impossible to demonstrate. There must necessarily be a limit to the applicability of the principle of tax exemption for educational institutions...
...seems to be particularly fitting that the first recognition of this limit should come from the oldest university in the country where, since its founding in 1636, the principle has been in operation...