Word: centralized
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...managing all the different companies, but dividends are paid out on combined profits. Much anti-trust legislation, however, led to the formation of the typical form of trust--the single corporation. The form of Trust which is now in the ascendant is modelled much after the old Trust. A central company is organized to buy up all stock of all the corporations. Technically the individual boards of directors manage their own affairs, but in reality, the directors of the central company have the power. In all previous forms of the Trust, competition between the individual companies has been stopped...
Since September the collections at the Gray Herbarium have been increased to the extent of several thousand specimens from various parts of the world. Among the acquisitions is a collection of Central American plants, 875 in number, presented by Captain J. Donnell Smith of Baltimore. Another, consisting of some 900 specimens, has come from Porto Rico. The United States Department of Agriculture has sent 621 specimens of American grasses; the Botanic Garden of the University of Vienna, 877 Austrian plants, and the New York Botanical Garden, 561 plants from Idaho and Montana. In addition, 852 specimens from the Galapagos Islands...
Some interesting facts as to the relative size of Harvard and Yale and their development during the past year are contained in the following table of sectional representation. The country is divided into four sections: northeastern, comprising New England, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania; central, comprising Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin; western, comprising all states west of the Mississippi; and southern, comprising all states south of Pennsylvania and east of the Mississippi. Foreign countries make up a fifth division. The table shows the number of graduates and undergraduates now at Harvard and Yale from each section, the increase...
...above table shows that 79 1-4 per cent. of Harvard students come from the northeastern section, 8 1-2 per cent. from the central section, 6 1-2 per cent. from the western, 3 3-4 per cent. from the southern and 2 per cent. from foreign countries. At Yale, 75 3-4 per cent. are from the northeastern section, 9 1-2 per cent. from the central section, 7 3-4 per cent. from the western, 5 per cent. from foreign countries. Of all the men attending the two universities, Harvard has 63 per cent. from the northeastern...
...objections to a Quincy street location, then are real and potent, not fictitious. None of them is met in connection with College House site. It is central, convenient and physically suitable, situated on a broad avenue and facing, as it does, the main College gate. A. N. Rice. R. W. Bliss. W. Morrow. R. C. Bolling. F. L. Higginson, Jr. S. W. Lewis...