Word: evening
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...following "newsy" clipping will undoubtedly be of interest to some men: "The optional prayer system, which has been in vogue for some months at Harvard University, has proven more successful than even its advocates expected. - Bowdoin Orient...
...Memorial Hall are becoming as great a nuisance as their friends and allies, the shacks. In fact, the newsboy plague is further reaching than the shack pest, for a shack will not attack a man who does not carry a racket, whereas the newsboys pursue everybody they see. Even when a victim waves in the air his already purchased paper, the newsboy still persists. If the number of boys was reduced to three or four, and these remained at the hall, just as many papers would be sold, and the walk to breakfast and dinner would be rendered less disagreeable...
...more than the estimates. The private company cannot be blamed for expenses that arise which were not expected, nor foreseen, any more than the private individual. But were any road to be rebuilt, experience bought at an excess cost of $30,000 per mile would show how construction and even maintenance expenses might be reduced so as to come within the limit of $30,000 allowed as normal average cost of construction per mile...
...operations not so much in the shape of a reduction of price on each purchase, as in the lump sum returned to him at the end of the year. On the other hand, any person connected with the University is permitted to buy at the Society's store, even though not a member. Such persons will get the advantage of somewhat lower prices than ordinary retail prices, will have convenience of the store in Dane Hall, and the certainty of not being cheated as to quality and price of goods. Only members are to have the privilege of discounts with...
...would plant factories where low rents and cheap raw material made up for high rates. The enforcement of this clause of necessity revolutionizes many of these arrangements and causes much hardship to shippers. III. - The prohibition of pools is inexpedient, as the experience of all other countries has shown. Even Germany, where there is so much government control over railroads, has found it impossible to prohibit pools and equalize rates at the same time. Whereas Germany employs a force of 8000 men to manage railroad matters, our bill intends that five commissioners should do all the work over a larger...