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...plans not involving the elimination of private profits have failed to diminish waterially the evils of the liquor traffic. - (a) State prohibition does not prohibit: W. B. Weeden, Working of Prohibition, 56-93; Boston Herald, Jan. 24, '95. - (b) Prohibition by local option merely changes the place of sale. - (1) It does not effectively do away with the evils of liquor consumption. - (c) High license has also failed to diminish the evils: W. J. McFarland, Facts, not Opinions, 15-17. - (1) It simply makes a few dealers more greedy for large sales: E. L. Fanshawe, as above...
GENTLEMEN: Your editorial of today on the system employed in History 13 and the expenses therewith connected, seems to be founded on a misapprehension. The purpose of, what you call "the machinery of the course," is not to increase but to diminish the expenditure of the students. It is a course requiring the use of many books, and students who cannot afford to provide themselves with a small library on the subject would find themselves handicapped. A pamphlet has, therefore, been prepared which contains, besides matter intended to be helpful for the special work of the course...
...note this fact with peculiar pleasure also because we feel sure that, the nation as a whole considered, the Graduate School will become more and more the guarantee of Harvard's reputation as the chief place of learning in the land. Local colleges are abundant and must diminish the number of men who will come a great distance for their college education. But that the Graduate School offers advantages not to be obtained else where is evidenced by the fact that the enrolment of the School has trebled within seven years and that last year out of two hundred...
...this would make it very comfortable for the men at those tables. Is not this the greatest inconsistency? Are the general table men a different class of students from the club table men? Do they pay less for their privileges? The plan of the Corporation would increase rather than diminish the social life of the hall, for it would give this social life to all the men; to men who would never have it under the directors' plan...
...committee of the University of Pennsylvania was held last evening at the house of Chairman John C. Bell to pass resolutions instructing Pennsylvania's representatives at the football convention which is to be held next Saturday. The recommendation of the committee was that rules should be adopted which would diminish the frequency of mass plays rather than abolish them altogether. The committee also favored rules which would secure more kicking, either by decreasing the number of downs, or by increasing the distance to be gained...