Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...address last night on "Pending Legislation regarding Combinations and Corporations," Professor E. Dana Durand declared that with one exception, all the bills relative to the trust question now before Congress have a common weakness in their failure to distinguish between harmless and monopolistic combination. These bills would rule out the element of reason in the judicial interpretation of trust cases, thus making no discrimination between the petty and harmless restraint of trade allowable by late decisions of the Supreme Court, and the large and detrimental monopolies by the more powerful corporations. Such acts would do little toward bettering the situation...
...common interests of the members of the Federation of Territorial Clubs are too little apparent to make of it a self-operating institution. This year leaders seem conspicuously absent. According to the testimony of the fourteen members of the Federation who attended the meeting in the Union last evening to hear Dr. Fitch, the handbook, having no definite custodian, has strayed off the road into oblivion somewhere between here and last September. It was established with an ideal worthy of a better fate. If the Territorial Clubs are insistent upon dying, it will, we suppose, descend eventually to that already...
...Fitch outlined the groups as the complacent provincialists, the conscientious provincialists, and the bitter provincialists. The first are the private school men, who draw together naturally and unconsciously by reason of their similar training and vast interests in common; the second are the public school men, sprung from the so-called "middle classes," who hold off from the first group partly from disapproval and partly from disapproval and partly from inability to break social barriers; and the third, a group far greater than is generally realized, consists of those who have, by dint of extraordinary grit and determination, worked their...
...injecting more sociability into the meetings, and the task of carrying through the work on the hand-book were acclaimed the most imminent, and it was decided to meet both questions by more closely binding together the separate clubs through a union of the different officers into one common committee. No further action was taken and the hand-book is no nearer publication than before. The attendance at the meeting was discouragingly small...
Laying down the rule that "the average loudness of a sound in a room is proportional inversely to the absorbing power of the material in the room," Dean Sabine has made careful experiments to determine the absorption value of the common forms of construction used in office walls and movable partitions. He has established the fact that a square yard of felt of a given thickness will absorb a certain amount of noise, and that if there is an overplus of noise, one must simply put up a corresponding area of sound-proof blanket. He has produced a long-fibre...