Word: elderly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Elder '07, G. W. Hinckley 3L., and A. P. Matthew 1L. represented the University, and spoke in the order named. The Yale team consisted of E. H. Hart '07, J. N. Pierce 3D., and H. D. Smith 1D., who also spoke in the order named. Each man was allowed twelve minutes for a main speech, and five minutes for rebuttal...
...Elder opened the debate. We are to discuss, he said, the transportation problem of the second largest city of the world. The question is of vast importance not only because of the great size of New York City, but because of its peculiar physical character, which makes transportation a daily necessity for the majority of its population. In view of the importance of transportation, the service should be adequate, convenient, and modern. When we examine the existing conditions, however, we find that the service is very unsatisfactory...
...dirty, poorly lighted and heated, and greatly over-crowded. This is the essence of scores of complaints from associations of citizens representing all sections of New York City, which appear in the Street Railway Commission's reports year after year, but yet the condition has been little improved. Elder then cited several other evidences of popular dissatisfaction...
...Elder then interpreted the question. By ownership is meant absolute ownership; but if the city should own the street railways, it could operate them itself or lease them. In either case, the affirmative will try to prove municipal ownership desirable. The question is one of practical benefit, not of legal possibility. Legal difficulties such as the debt limit, can easily be adjusted if public ownership appears beneficial...
Harvard has decided to uphold the affirmative side of the question, "Resolved, That it would be for the best interests of New York City to own its street railway system," in the debate with Yale at New Haven on March 30. The Harvard team, composed of A. H. Elder '07, G. W. Hinckley 3L. and A. P. Matthew 1L., is being coached by R. T. Parke...