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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...order to interest as many persons as possible in the management and success of the Review, we respectfully solicit your subscription to the guarantee fund in the sum of five dollars a year for three successive years. Since this sum will yield little more than the cost of subscription, we ask those able and interested to make a further subscription outright for the present year, with a contingent agreement to pay the same sum, or such proportion as may be found necessary by the board of editors, in each of the years 1896 and 1897. We have reason to expect...
...Trusts are not harmful. - (a) They can never maintain abnormal prices. - (1) Competition, latent or active, is always a check. - (2) Too great increase of prices lessens demand. - (b) Profits are enlarged by cheapening cost of production not by raising prices. - (c) Regime of combination is less harmful than one of free competition: Forum, 8:67 - (d) Trusts differ from corporate and individualistic forms of industry only in size and complexity. - (e) Popular prejudice is illogical. - (1) Classes most injured by competition are loudest in denouncing trusts...
...Trusts are of positive economic advantage. - (a) Decrease cost of production. - (1) Competition is wasteful. (2) Improved methods. - (b) Prevents overproduction. - (1) Regulate supply to demand - (c) Steady labor. - (d) Prevent ruinous competition. (e) Increase consumption. - (1) Facilities of transportation. - (2) Lower prices. - (f) Prices may rise temporarily, but fall steadily afterward...
President Seth Low made a formal offer to assume personally the cost of erecting the new library at One Hundred and Sixteenth street, on Morningside Heights, the site of the new Columbia College building. The building is to cost $1,000,000, and is to be a memorial to President Low's father, the late Abiel Abbot Low, "a merchant who taught his son to value the things for which Columbia stands...
William C. Schermerhorn, chairman of the Board of Trustees, also announced that he would be responsible for the erection of a college building at a cost...