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...secret.- (b) It tends to lower rates.- (1) Rates were lower in 1884 under pooling system than ever before, except during rate wars: N. Y. Ry. Commission Report of 1884, I: 77.- (c) It checks consolidation and monopoly.- (1) The powerful companies cannot, by cutting rates, ruin, and then absorb, the smaller roads: Pol. Sci. Quar. '87, p. 388.- (d) It tends to lessen the construction of parallel lines.- (1) New roads, obtaining only a fair share of traffic under pooling system, cannot compete with old established lines.- (2) Parallel lines are usually constructed on wild-cat schemes, with expected...
...Trusts are an economic evil. - (a) Limit natural production: Nation, vol. 49, p. 186 (Sept., 1889). - (b) Destroy competition. - (1) Absorb all large producers. - (2) Crush smaller rivals; Pop-Science Monthly, vol. 34, p. 19 (Mar., 1889). - (c) Raise prices...
...University Magazine is to be published shortly. Its purpose is to give graduates a full and reliable account of college news together with general literary matter. It is hoped that this will absorb the two monthlies now published...
...athletics under present circumstances. There has been a tendency, becoming more marked lately, for 'varsity contests to overshadow class contests. Since in the former the first athletes of the University take part, and since on them the athletic reputation of the University is staked, they have come to absorb so much interest that other contests are, by the force of contrast if nothing else, inevitably depressed...
...students are not greatly prejudiced either for or against athletics; they believe that athletics are good and give undoubted contributions to the upbuilding of health, manliness, and morality; and, on the other hand, they believe that athletics have no monopoly on goodness, and that at the present time, they absorb more than their due share of attention. Students in general wish to see athletics have just their due share of attention,- no more and no less. Now such students will heartily support any program of reform that recommends itself to their good sense, and it is just in this respect...