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Columbia College is to have two new buildings to be known as "Schermerhorn Hall" and "Physics Building." The former is the gift of Wm. C. Schermerhorn, chairman of the board of trustees, and will cost $300,000. It will be used by the school of sciences. The "Physics Building" will cost probably $200,000. Work will begin at once on these buildings...
...Russell, quoted, Ibid, p. 18.- (c) Discourages invention and improved methods in public works.- (1) Kills competition: Speech of A. C. Burrage, p. 18.- (2) Removes the incentive to profit making: Pol. Sci. Quar. Dec. '88, p. 590.- (3) Leads to conservatism.- (d) Public labor less efficent than private: Chairman of Boston Park Commission, in speech of Burrage, p. 11.- (e) Tends unduly to raise wages.- (1) The employer is the best judge of reasonable wages.- (2) Government control makes the laborer the judge: Nation...
Some very prominent men have been appointed on the Honorary Committee from the United States. Among those who have promised to serve are President Cleveland, who will act as chairman; Joseph H. Choate, Provost C. C. Harrison of the University of Pennsylvania, Albert Shaw, editor of the Review of Reviews; S. G. B. Laste, editor of the Ephemeris; and the following college presidents: Eliot, Dwight, Patton, Gilman...
...meeting was held at Yale, on Wednesday night, of those interested in Civil Service Reform. A. P. Stokes, Jr., was elected temporary chairman. After several addresses by professors in the university, an appropriate motion was made to organize a Yale Civil Service Reform Club, and the following committee was elected to draw up a constitution: Chairman, A. P. Stokes, Jr., '96, P. C. Peck '96, W. R. Cross '96, E. E. Garrison '97, and H. Cuntz...
...committee has sent to Mr. Caswell of New York, chairman of the executive committee of the cup donors, a list of ten names from which the New York players will be finally chosen. The alphabetically ordered list comprises, with the names given above, C. L. Barnard '97, C. H. Dunn '96, and H. S. Johnson...