Word: premiums
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Alumni of the University, immediately to appoint a Committee whose duty it shall be to make a careful investigation of the subject, and to report such thorough-going alterations in the game as will remove the unfair advantage now obtained from violation of the rules, will put a higher premium on skill, make mere weight and strength of less value, and will produce a more scientific and interesting sport. Very truly yours, W.T. REID...
...have not followed athletics very closely since graduation. My opinions must therefore be snap but you are welcome to them. The Stadium at the time it was built seemed to me to be a premium on the commercial in athletics and still seem so. However, you have got it now and also its debt. My suggestion about the $70,000 debt is to spread it over a longer period, say about ten years, making payments of $7,000 each year...
...over. And, if we are to permit the seizure of land under the six conditions named, we must permit the taking of land where there is a valid claim against a South American state which refuses to arbitrate. For otherwise we would put a penalty upon arbitration and a premium upon non-arbitration, as the debtor state would keep away from the Hague tribunal...
...movement designed to exercise a particular set of muscles. They are the result of several months experiments at the Gymnasium, and will now be offered as an optional substitute for the old test. In official trials each man is required to complete his total test within thirty minutes, a premium thus being put on speed. To make the trial a criterion of general physical efficiency it is provided that no man shall score more than a certain maximum or less than a certain minimum on any one exercise...
...elected to office before the third annual meeting of the class should be eligible for re-election at the expiration of his term. This would bring the class to its Senior election with a variety of candidates more or less trained for their work. It would put a premium on good work of the kind required from class officers: and Harvard interests would be better served, not only in class affairs, but wherever there was an opportunity for good management and executive ability to make itself felt. There would be more interest in class meetings if ability to manage class...