Word: premiums
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...lectured in the parlor of the Brooks House last night on the Liquor Problem. The agencies, said Mr. Brooks, which are working most powerfully and effectively for temperance in this country today are not the laws, not the temperance societies, but the railroads and great industries, by putting a premium on temperate men for employees. As long as all the passions of men can be exploited together, by private capitalists for great personal gain, they will be more powerful than the most drastic law that can be framed. The Committee of Fifty tried to secure an experimental bill in Massachusetts...
Several ticket agencies in Boston are sending postals to different undergraduates offering a premium for tickets. It is sincerely hoped no notice will be taken of these postals. Several other men have canvassed certain dormitories in order to procure the right to use undergraduates' application blanks by paying a certain amount for each application...
...intended for rest, for such a purpose. On one day a week, at the least, it is good for a man to take a certain amount of rest and recreation out in the open air. Now the present hours at the Library Reading Room put a premium on spending Sunday afternoons indoors or else on letting go entirely work that could be done very comfortably in the evening. As everyone knows, the Reading Room opens at one o'clock and closes at five...