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When a city buys over a railway or gas works from a private concern, all the money placed in the sinking fund is made up by taxation. If it happens that private gas works charge more than municipal gas works, the reason is generally because they are in less densely populated districts, where the cost of maintaining mains is greater, and the profit less. The profit of private corporations is spent in remunerating the capitalists and as management expenses. When buying their plants, the city has to raise a loan, and in so doing pledges not only its own money...
...with municipal ownership, Major Darwin made the distinction between the older and the newer municipal monopolies; the former comprise water works, gas works, etc., and the latter the street railway and electric lighting systems. The city may own and manage these directly, own and lease them to a private concern for management, or leave them completely under the ownership and control of a private corporation. At the end of 21 years in the case of the railway system, or 42 years in the case of the electric light system, the city may take over the management itself or intrust...
...this Harvard Union, because each loyal Harvard man should do all he can to foster in Harvard that spirit of real democracy which will make Harvard men feel the vital sense of solidarity so that they can all join to work together in the things that are of most concern to the College. It is idle to expect, nor indeed would it be desirable, that there should be in Harvard a uniform level of taste and association. Some men will excel in one thing and some in another; some in things of the body, some in things of the mind...
...reason why I so thoroughly believe in the athletic spirit at Harvard is because the athletic spirit is essentially democratic. Our chief interest should not lie in the great champions in sport. On the contrary, our concern should be most of all to widen the base, the foundation in athletic sports; to encourage in every way a healthy rivalry which shall give to the largest possible number of students the chance to take part in vigorous outdoor games. It is of far more importance that a man shall play something himself, even if he plays it badly, than that...
...literature. The greatest special function of a college, as distinguished from its general function of producing good citizenship, should be so to shape conditions as to put a premium upon the development of productive scholarship, of the creative mind, in any form of intellectual work. The men whose chief concern lies with the work of the student in study should bear this fact ever before them...