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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...first statement of the needs of the Cambridge post office, reference was made to the rapidly increasing business carried on there. It would have added weight to the appeal then and will now doubtless satisfy those who signed the petition more than ever of the negligence of the Government, if the growth of the business were definitely stated...
...railroad transactions are made public, thus eliminating (a) rebates, (b) rate-cutting, (c) discrimination, (d) underweighing, etc., all of which evils can only be practiced in secret.- (b) It tends to lower rates.- (1) Rates were lower in 1884 under pooling system than ever before, except during rate wars: N. Y. Ry. Commission Report of 1884, I: 77.- (c) It checks consolidation and monopoly.- (1) The powerful companies cannot, by cutting rates, ruin, and then absorb, the smaller roads: Pol. Sci. Quar. '87, p. 388.- (d) It tends to lessen the construction of parallel lines.- (1) New roads, obtaining only...
...place in the second half and though owing to a rather weak line at times he did not make much progress, he showed himself superior to Wrightington in every point. C. Brewer played an excellent game. He gained much ground, tackled perfectly and punted as well as he has ever punted. He outpunted McCarthy, even when the latter had the wind in his favor...
Brown made two attempts to get through the line, but in vain. Next, for a change, a criss-cross was attempted and Murphy ran around Harvard's right end. With good interference he got 30 yards, when he was tackled by Brewer. It was one of the prettiest tackles ever seen on Soldiers Field...
...quarters for the Cambridge post-office were put up at noon yesterday and before night several hundred names were subscribed. Many members of the Faculty have expressed their endorsement of the movement in strong terms. One spoke of the accommodations in the post office as the worst he had ever seen and characterized the place as a "a nasty hole." Another said that it was unfit for a dog to live in." Another said that though the University alone, represented nearly five thousand persons, including Radcliffe College and the families of instructors, there was not as good post office accommodation...