Word: england
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...twenty-second annual outdoor meet of the Interscholastic Amateur Athletic Association of New England will be held on Soldiers Field, Saturday, May 11, at 2.30 o'clock. The school winning the largest number of points will receive the trophy cups offered by Harvard graduates and by the Boston Athletic Association. Gold medals will also be given for first place in each event, silver medals for second, and bronze for third. Entry blanks have been sent out to all the schools in the Association and the entries will close next Wednesday. The meet will be in charge of the assistant manager...
...annual conference of the Church Societies of the New England colleges, which met last year in Trinity Church, Boston, will be held next Saturday and Sunday in Phillips Brooks House at the invitation of the St. Paul's Society. Delegates from Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, Williams, Amherst, Trinity, St. Mark's School, and St. George's School, will meet here for the purpose of strengthening the efficiency of the Church Societies by an interchange of practical experience and the discussion of unsolved problems. An assignment of rooms for the various delegates will be made at a reception which will be held...
...under the ownership and control of a private corporation. At the end of 21 years in the case of the railway system, or 42 years in the case of the electric light system, the city may take over the management itself or intrust it again to a corporation. In England the subject of municipal ownership is not really the point for dispute, but the question of the employment of municipal labor is the pivot on which the controversy must turn...
...many and especially by English legislators, but it is questionable whether they are beneficial. In any enterprise it is almost certain that initial losses will occur, and short period franchises are not sufficiently attractive to draw capital to the work. The effect of the short period franchise in England seems to have seriously crippled the industries, and it is evident that too rigid terms demanded from operating companies paralyze their industries. A compromise must be made which is favorable to the investing companies. This difficulty in regard to franchises may be remedied by two methods: by trying to alter legislation...
...closing, Major Darwin said that municipal trade in England was not associated with either high or low taxation; and statistics proved that cities neither gain nor lose much from their municipal ventures...