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Wadsworth House was built for President Wadsworth in 1726 by a decree of the General Court which set aside a thousand pounds for the purpose. Before it was completed the College Corporation was called upon to contribute eight hundred pounds additional. This old house with its generously spacious, colonial interior is still well preserved, and is now used as a dormitory. It was the residence of Presidents Wadsworth (1725-1737), Holyoke (1737-1769), Locke (1770-1773), Langdon (1774-1780), Willard (1781-1804), Webber (1806-1810), Kirkland (1810-1828), Quincy (1829-1845), and Everett (1846-1849). President Sparks, the next head...
...published by the department of Economics. Dr. Copeland was at one time instructor at Harvard, and also served as an assistant in Economics 6. The judges in this year's contest were Professor A. A. Young, Washington University, St. Louis; Hon. F. J. Swayze '79, Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey, and Professor George R. Wicker, of Dartmouth College...
...Swayze '79, Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey and member of the Board of New Jersey and member of the Board of Overseers of the University, delivered the second of two lectures on "The Fourteenth Amendment and the Limitation of the Right to Regulate Public Service Corporations" yesterday afternoon, giving the interpretations of cases which involved the reasonableness of rates of a corporation on the basis of the value of its property, the service it renders, and the question of legislative and judicial control of these rates...
Railroads claim that the fixing of rates deprives them of property. In Minnesota the Railroad Commission ordered a reduction in the rates on milk shipments and car haulage. The Court decided that the Commission was not clothed with judicial power, and that the railroad was constitutionally entitled to reasonable profits. The question was summarized in the Nebraska Maximum Rate Case. The court held that the matter of compensation over total expense was a matter to be determined by public policy and not by fixed rates. In short, the property right of the railroad is the right to operate economically with...
...English, and was in the Phi Beta Kappa. Of the three men from different colleges now most prominently mentioned as candidates for the Presidency. William H. Taft was a very high scholar indeed; and, as everybody knows, might, if he had so chosen, have been appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States; Woodrow Wilson has long been renowned as a scholar and a particularly able writer; and Theodore Roosevelt. Harvard '80, always an omnivorous yet a discriminating reader, was one of the first eight in the Phi Beta Kappa of his year. Although these instances...