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...boats belonging to the Harvard Rowing Club by members who keep on the water for four or five hours at a stretch, while men are waiting at the boat house for a chance to go out, has necessitated a rule restricting the time allowed for use of a boat. The rule restricts use of singles and doubles to an hour and a half, and fours to two hours, and is designed to give all men equal chance at the boats...
...people did not settle here but returned home as did many other explorers quite disheartened at the country. A permanent settlement, however, was made by Ingolfe in 874. The manner of the settlement was this: The people in the inlands south of Norway being unwilling to submit to Norwegian rule, migrated to Iceland in 884. This people increased until the population became from 25,000 to 30,000. They settled at first about the temples in little bands but finally agreed to unite and form a democracy. A constitution was adopted from Norway; the state was divided into four parts...
...large body of its graduates resident in or near that city, was to Yale what Boston is to Harvard, and was unwilling to negotiate further until an attempt had been made to induce the Harvard Athletic Committee to make an exception to the so-called New England rule and allow a football game in New York on Thanksgiving Day. In difference to this wish of Yale and to the strong desire of Harvard graduates resident in New York, as expressed by two of the New York members of the Board of Overseers, the Athletic Committee, believing that, if certain steps...
...committee of the faculty of his competency to pursue with profit the college courses, is required to attend regularly the college exercises and pass the same examinations as regular students, and is subject to a stricter supervision than any other body of students at the University. By a rule of the Committee on Athletics, in order to play on an athletic team he must take the same number of courses that is required of regular students. If he falls behind in his studies, he is at once by college authority put upon probation, and this, by a faculty rule, disqualifies...
...clearly understood that nothing is property which is not the embodiment of applied labor and which cannot be bought or sold. It is a notion in this country that legislation can make something out of nothing. Deeds represent a right to property but are not additional property. A good rule for legislators would be never to tax anything that could be of value to their state that could or would run away. Simplicity of taxation and collection is desirable, but Henry George's single tax is too simple. By the laws of diffusion of taxes they finally fall on consumers...