Word: demand
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...undergraduates alike will be eager to avail themselves of the opportunity which the committee offers to secure seats in advance. Those who trust to chance for finding a place unoccupied in in the theatre are likely to fare but poorly. The seats will early be in very great demand...
...much talked of correspondence between Harvard and Yale on the subject of a football game next fall is today made public. The Yale letter, written in a spirit of firm, manly independence, is not dictatorial in tone, nor does it demand that Harvard shall humble herself, as the press of the country would seem to make us think...
...address by Joseph Jefferson, under the auspices of the Harvard Union, will be given tonight in Sanders Theatre at eight o'clock. All the tickets for the lecture have been given out and the demand was so great that a number who desired tickets were disappointed. The white, blue and red tickets, which entitle the holder to seats on the floor, in the first and in the second balconies respectively, are good at the Cambridge street door of Memorial. The door will be open at 7.30. Green admission tickets are good at the Kirkland street entrance only. This door will...
...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...