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...differences in cost of constructing, operating and repairing ships under the American flag and under foreign flags. Even did subsidies offset these disadvantages, it would be at an unjustifiably enormous expense. Moreover, subsidies are a bad business and economic proportion, for they are only temporary and do not adapt themselves to changes in economic conditions, for there is no relation between subsidies and markets...
...rules committee will meet April 29 and definitely decide upon the rules for next season. After that voluntary practice will be held in order that the men may adapt themselves to the new conditions and develop new formations. Nobody was injured this spring which is a much better record than the squad has had for several years...
...hard for me to adapt myself comfortably to the fact that the Advocate is no longer an organ of College opinion. Can it be that the internal economy of the University is so perfected that there are no continuing evils to assail, no grievances so lasting as to call for the use of heavier journalistic ordnance than the daily musketry of the CRIMSON? I must look, it is clear, at the Advocate not as a semi-monthly spokesman of College views, but as a carrier of light waves--of verse, stories, and the occasional essay. If the old Advocate...
Several new courses, including elocution, economics, banking, investments, and civics were applied for last year, and these have accordingly been added. An effort is also being made to adapt the courses in advanced arithmetic, physic chemistry and mechanical drawing to the practical needs of the skilled workmen and mechanics who take such courses...
...from fellow institutions. These assertions could be verified by a study of athletics at Harvard during the past quarter of a century. The present body of rules has been the slow product of years of trial and experience; and has been subject to constant scrutiny, with a desire to adapt it to existing conditions, nowhere more than in the Athletic Committee itself. That the whole code has not been thoroughly overhauled and simplified during the last two years, as was planned by the Committee in the spring of 1904, is due to causes quite beyond the control of that Committee...